Miata
2003-01-20, 23:17:18
Hallo, hab mal ne Mail an AMI geschickt wegen dem neuen Chip mit TCPA und hab auch schon ne Antwort bekommen.
Hier die Mail:
Hello Stefan,
The simple answer is yes, we will continue to offer also non TCPA-BIOS also
in the future. AMIBIOS has a modular architecture, the TCPA can be there or
not depending from the OEM. Just read your motherboard / PC specifications.
As you may know, there are already TCPA-enabled PC on commerce (IBM
notebooks) and that feature is clearly stated in the product
description/specification.
It must be noted that AMI has not announced support for Palladium. Palladium
is an initiative by an OS entity that is slated for the future. To be
honest, though we do know about it, AMI has not begun any development
related to it. At this point we have not made any decisions on support
either.
TCPA does not equal Palladium. While certainly there is some future
development overlap between the two, TCPA is being introduced by OEM's as a
security option to protect systems through hardware and firmware. This
feature is completely optional to our customers (OEM's, ODM's, CM's and
other system builders) that they may choose to make it available or not
depending on the needs of their market. We have had requests from a number
of customers for this technology.
Regarding the limitations of a system with TCPA I would offer the link below
to the public specification for further information on compatibility with
different OS's, and hardware. Based on that spec we can tell you that it
does not limit the ability to run Linux (or any other open source solution).
As a smaller company itself, AMI has always supported innovation and
creativity as these have been our main tools in competing against much
larger companies in our industry. We would not do anything that in our
minds would damage our credibility or reputation for world class BIOS
solutions and will carefully evaluate this type of feedback when it does
come time to examine any future technologies. We would also like to
recommend that anyone who is opposed to a Palladium-type solution in the
future, please make that known to OEM's and system builders. As they are
our customers, we definitely listen to them in terms of what they (and
hopefully their customers) will want in future BIOS.
Thank you again for your time in contacting us and we hope that this and
some of the links below will shed some light on AMI's plans.
LINKS
Original Articles on theinquirer.net
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7089
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7103
AMI TCPA module Whitepaper
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/TCPA_whitepaper.pdf
TCPA Website
<http://www.trustedcomputing.org/>
Hier die Mail:
Hello Stefan,
The simple answer is yes, we will continue to offer also non TCPA-BIOS also
in the future. AMIBIOS has a modular architecture, the TCPA can be there or
not depending from the OEM. Just read your motherboard / PC specifications.
As you may know, there are already TCPA-enabled PC on commerce (IBM
notebooks) and that feature is clearly stated in the product
description/specification.
It must be noted that AMI has not announced support for Palladium. Palladium
is an initiative by an OS entity that is slated for the future. To be
honest, though we do know about it, AMI has not begun any development
related to it. At this point we have not made any decisions on support
either.
TCPA does not equal Palladium. While certainly there is some future
development overlap between the two, TCPA is being introduced by OEM's as a
security option to protect systems through hardware and firmware. This
feature is completely optional to our customers (OEM's, ODM's, CM's and
other system builders) that they may choose to make it available or not
depending on the needs of their market. We have had requests from a number
of customers for this technology.
Regarding the limitations of a system with TCPA I would offer the link below
to the public specification for further information on compatibility with
different OS's, and hardware. Based on that spec we can tell you that it
does not limit the ability to run Linux (or any other open source solution).
As a smaller company itself, AMI has always supported innovation and
creativity as these have been our main tools in competing against much
larger companies in our industry. We would not do anything that in our
minds would damage our credibility or reputation for world class BIOS
solutions and will carefully evaluate this type of feedback when it does
come time to examine any future technologies. We would also like to
recommend that anyone who is opposed to a Palladium-type solution in the
future, please make that known to OEM's and system builders. As they are
our customers, we definitely listen to them in terms of what they (and
hopefully their customers) will want in future BIOS.
Thank you again for your time in contacting us and we hope that this and
some of the links below will shed some light on AMI's plans.
LINKS
Original Articles on theinquirer.net
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7089
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7103
AMI TCPA module Whitepaper
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/TCPA_whitepaper.pdf
TCPA Website
<http://www.trustedcomputing.org/>