Re: [External] Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)
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On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 15:30 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 9/2/2020 2:19 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux
> > > Canada: http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca
> >
> > I've tried registering on the US website and it seems to work fine here.
> > I'm
> > not completely sure how explicit the “rebate” is (and with the LABORDAY
> > coupon
> > currently on the “standard” website it's not easy to compare). Anyway I
> > didn't
> > investigate further because I'm from Europe so I'll wait a bit.
> >
> I'm just curious - it doesn't let you double up on the discounts? (I
> have no idea if it would or not....but worth a go :P)
To be fair, I did try to add that, but the /Linux website told me the coupon
was expired :)
>
> > > We're still working on getting other geographies up and running - not
> > > available yet I'm afraid.
> >
> > Any idea of the timeframe? Weeks, months, more?
> Afraid I don't know but I hope it's not months...it will depend on the
> geo teams to some extent.
> The US site took us a few weeks to get up but that was the first
> one....so fingers crossed the others are easier. My colleague is chasing
> the others down so I'll check with him what the status is.
Ack, thanks!
> > On the X1C configuration I tried, the “Absolute” stuff is there but one
> > can't
> > change it. For the HAP the snippet is not there at all (although I think I
> > remember seeing it once)
> >
> I've not played with that but I can find out about it. I've got a T14
> AMD in front of me right now and it I could configure the Absolute
> Persistence Module (enable/disable/permanently disable).
Yeah I know the end-user / administrator can disable it in the BIOS settings,
but there's apparently a way to do it on the website and I was curious about
it.
> For the ME HAP...I don't see that either. I'll see if I can find out
> about it.
Obviously that's only on Intel platforms (AMD has the PSP processor but I'm
unsure if there's an equivalent HAP stuff). This one actually *needs* to be
set by the OEM before end of manufacturing (flashing would work on older Intel
platforms but not the more recent ones). Some details can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#%22High_Assurance_Platform%22_mode
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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