PSPTool
Display, extract, and manipulate PSP firmware inside UEFI images (by PSPReverse)
udbgInstr
By chip-red-pill
| PSPTool | udbgInstr | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | |
| 593 | 108 | |
| 1.7% | - | |
| 6.4 | 4.2 | |
| 21 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Python | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PSPTool
Posts with mentions or reviews of PSPTool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.
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Google announces official Android support for RISC-V
AMD's version of the ME is called PSP, and while a lot smaller, it is also possible to remove most of the blobs
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My PSP Digital Collection!
Mind sharing a link for it? When I went looking for it, all I'm finding are things like this and a PSP Tool like this, none of what you are describing
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Chip Red Pill: Arbitrary [Micro]Code Execution Inside Intel Atom CPUs
Or, and here is a crazy idea, maybe they use a dedicated security chip to improve security?
Don't know about apple, but the AMD security firmware has been reverse engineered and no backdoors have so far been found.
https://github.com/PSPReverse/PSPTool
- Should I buy a recent laptop if I'm to go down the privacy lane later?
udbgInstr
Posts with mentions or reviews of udbgInstr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-07.
- Chip Red Pill: Arbitrary [Micro]Code Execution Inside Intel Atom CPUs
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Hacker News top posts: Jul 15, 2021
Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]\ (12 comments)
- Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PSPTool and udbgInstr you can also consider the following projects:
uofw - The unofficial Official FirmWare, a complete latest PSP firmware reverse engineering project
UEFITool - UEFI firmware image viewer and editor
me_cleaner - Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images
CPUMicrocodes - Intel, AMD, VIA & Freescale CPU Microcode Repositories