[coreboot] we've always known this was possible and hence never bothered to do it but ...

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue May 13 13:21:31 CEST 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:41:03PM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote:
> Not that SMM vulnerabilities are the only security holes in
> coreboot (you might want to do a web search for "blue pill" and
> consider implementing an "enable/disable VMX" option somewhere).

Discussion or even patches are both most welcome!

Security has not been a great focus in coreboot so far, but that is
not because we like to make it unsecure, rather that we have enough
to do to get it working at all.

It would be great to have some help! Everyone is invited.


//Peter




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