On 10/6/07, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor wrote:
quoted text > On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther wrote:
> > I've got me a macbook and I'm figuring out how to install OpenBSD on
> > it (I'm going to see if I can do it without BootCamp, appearently it's
> > possible:
http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/ ). One of my friends
> > mentioned "too bad about the evil" to me and so I started digging into
> > one of the evils: Trusted Computing. How do I find out if this mac has
> > a TPM chip? Apple is never open about this fact.
> >
> > This page
> > reports that some macs have them and some don't. It also says that in
quoted text > > linux you can check `ioreg` for mentions of TPM.
> >
> > What would the equivalent method in OpenBSD? Would the chip show up in
> > dmesg? Here's one dmesg
> >
http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/openbsd-on-intel-mac-mini/ and I
> > don't see anything that looks like a TPM chip but I'm not sure what
> > all the devices are.
> >
> > If I can't know for sure from software I plan on cracking the case and
> > searching for one physically anyway.
> >
> > -Nick
> >
> >
>
> I have a Macbook 2,1 that I run OpenBSD exclusively on. No Boot camp
> or anything special. Just OpenBSD as it is.
ooh, first: thanks for your quick response.
What *is* BootCamp? I know it's mostly just repartitioning software
> There are a few things you need to know before you install. You will
quoted text > need acpi and you will need an external USB-keyboard during
Why do you need acpi? I did read that and I did make myself an
I did indeed run into the problem of the keyboard not working during
> I use AMD64 and GENERIC.MP.
Is there an advantage to AMD64 over i386? My default was to grab i386
> I did some googling about TPM in macbook and newer Apple hardware and
quoted text mm I found this one too, it's linked at the end of the link I gave.
> http://www.tuaw.com/2006/11/02/apple-drops-trusted-computing/
Still, TPM needs software to run it. It would be a very strange move
>
quoted text > Both these links say newer Apple hardware does not contain it, they
I only have a Macbook. Maybe they big-brother anyone who doesn't shell
> There are still a few problems with the macbook, I'm trying to write a
quoted text > driver for Apple system Management Controller, it's not going that
Oh sweet, that's really nice.
The SMC controls low-level power functions. Does it do that on its
> Here is my dmesg:
quoted text > OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #8: Sat Sep 22 19:44:03 CEST 2007
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,
xTPR,NXE,LONG
quoted text > cpu0: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS
H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,
xTPR,NXE,LONG
quoted text > cpu1: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
3/0
quoted text > uhidev2: 38 report ids
