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AMD Opteron to support Palladium

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the coming-soon-to-a-cpu-near-you dept.

Jim Norton writes "This article is just a reminder that AMD is just as guilty as Intel in supporting TCPA / Palladium. AMD has announced that Opteron will be compatible with the Palladium Initiative and that AMD is part of the 'Trusted Computing Alliance'."

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  1. Re:Well I guess we can't win by Sivar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With any Palladium system, you will be able to disable Palladium in BIOS, so it _doesn't matter_ if a system supports it or not. If you turn it off, you will be unable to use Palladium protected media, just like pre-Palladium systems.
    If you turn it on, you will at least have the option--an option I plan not to exercize.

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  2. Re:If you RTFA... by Beliskner · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Every now and again something happens that makes us citizens have to start everything again from scratch. I say FSF buys the Altera FPGA kit, and we design our own processor (I hope to God that Intel doesn't keep the OP-codes secret that relate to Palladium).

    We can program the FPGA with Intel instruction set compatibility, where Palladium instructions would be ignored, or design an add-on chip (like the old Pentium Turbo snap-on chips) which would detect the Palladium opcodes on the FSB and skirt around them. Whoa, am I violating the DMCA by suggesting this?

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  3. Nope by 0x0d0a · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's complete nonsense.

    I disagree. He stated that Palladium can be disabled. It's a technical fact, and it also happens to be correct. Not nonsense.

    Like playing Quake 3, or Counter-Strike? Better enjoy them while you can...soon you won't be able to play them without palladium enabled.

    a) Learn about Quake. Quake's insane success was mostly because of massive online acceptance which was mostly due to piracy. This increased the value of the game, and sold more copies. id admitted as much. Quake is without a doubt the single *worst* example you could have chosen of a piece of software having incentive to have strong DRM. Almost any other piece of software would be a more valid argument.

    b) This is tough for Windows warez-playing gamers. I have a tough time feeling sorry for them. It'll never affect Linux -- to do Palladium, you'd need universal blessed, signed binaries of the kernel. That will happen when hell freezes over, because Linus can't even stand distribution of binary code, much less universalized binary code.

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