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Does Intel-PMT come enabled by default on latest linux or Debian?
J.C. Denton · 2025-04-01 13:45
Or rather is it only enabled if the hardware supported?
As stated on GitHub:
> https://github.com/intel/Intel-PMT
>Intel PMT support on Linux has been added to mainline Linux kernel under platform driver (drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmt).
My guess is Intel-PMT is enabled by default on the latest Linux distributions, including Debian, in 2025, provided the hardware supports it?
What is Intel PMT?
>Intel PMT is a standardized way of exposing telemetry through host-based and out-of-band access across client
>Intel PMT kernel driver is typically loaded to discover and manage Intel PMT providers on a platform. Once the kernel driver is loaded, telemetry agent shall scan the discovered PMT unique IDs. For every known unique ID, telemetry agent shall load the matching set of XML files.
Ender · 2025-04-01 13:51
seems like some grade A soykaf if u ask me
Armitage · 2025-04-01 14:04
You forgot to mention that PMT stands for "Platform Monitoring Technology"
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/710389/intel-platform-monitoring-technology-intel-pmt-technical-specification.html
So it's prob used by gangstalkers to monitor you if the Intel ME can't get you if you neutered it.
Eldon Tyrell · 2025-04-01 14:31
>>.84301
So its like basically Management Engine 2.0 but in the kernel got it
Undisclosed · 2025-04-01 16:56
>>84304
Buy hey, at least you don't have any ruzzians contributing to the kernel any more!
Hail Linus!
Emmanuel · 2025-04-01 17:51
>>84307
>atleast you dont have proprietary linux drivers backdooring your what would be secure linux installations
sodd off **** intel me and other Israeli spyware like (e.g. including Qualcomm, Signal Foundation backdoor, Matrix aka amdocs, Narus Inc. aka software usedRoom 641A, and Kape Technologies etc)
Stas Khirman · 2025-04-01 18:37
>>84308
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus_Inc.
>In 1997, Ori Cohen, Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDONet, founded Narus with Stas Khirman in Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
>The room measures about 24 by 48 feet (7.3 by 14.6 m) and contains several racks of equipment, including a Narus STA 6400, a device designed to intercept and analyze Internet communications at very high speeds.
Lunch · 2025-04-01 20:43
>>84301
Does this relate to AI chips?
Debbie Charteris · 2025-04-02 01:04
So what does it do? Helps you to fingerprint hardware? I hope I can disable it in the kernel config. Anyway don't you worry. The world ends soon enough
Jet Black · 2025-04-02 02:18
>>84314
>The world ends soon enough
yeah cuz either antifa or trumptler will get yah to be honest
i just want klaus to tongue my anus ngl
Anamika · 2025-04-02 02:46
Yes it is enabled on debian by default as a module. I have just disabled it.
12of7 · 2025-04-05 11:54
>>84316
https://github.com/Kicksecure/security-misc/blob/master/etc/modprobe.d/30_security-misc_disable.conf#L96
witchashtyn · 2025-04-13 19:11
Is dis real or what?
why dafuq intel gotta doing this I already am cyberhumped by the Intel Management Engine thingyz
Y.T · 2025-04-24 13:32
>>84430
jah mon it real dawg but also enjoy your rust kernel and rust rewrite of le Torah browser guy
Ender · 2025-04-29 15:59
Why has noone mentioned this trash is it not really a threat or is enabled by default?
Nguoi La · 2025-04-29 16:35
>>84301
Just use AMD. Works for me.
Molly Millions · 2025-09-08 12:58
>>84316
How?
I just got a computer with debian and want to disable all spooky software. I noticed there are some SELinux traces that you cannot remove by the way, such as libselinux1
Leto Atreides I · 2025-09-08 14:06
This is for enterprise customers (supposedly anyway).
what they do:
>telemetry
>hardware as a service
Can this company die in a fire already?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027953
>Source: linux
>Severity: wishlist
>Tags: patch
>X-Debbugs-Cc: miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com, jair.de.jesus.gonzalez.plascencia@intel.com
>Dear Maintainer,
>Intel is planing to release the next-generation Xeon products [1] and some
>of the features are not enabled on Debian. Some of those are described
>below:
># Intel Vendor Specific Extended Capabilities Driver
> CONFIG_INTEL_VSEC=m
> This adds support for feature drivers exposed using Intel PCIe VSEC
> and DVSEC. This feature is used by the Intel PMT and Intel SDSi
># Intel Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT)
> CONFIG_INTEL_PMT_CLASS=m
> CONFIG_INTEL_PMT_TELEMETRY=m
> CONFIG_INTEL_PMT_CRASHLOG=m
> Intel PMT is an architecture for enumerating and accessing hardware
> monitoring capabilities on a device. With customers increasingly asking
> for hardware telemetry, engineers not only have to figure out how to
> measure and collect data, but also how to deliver it and make it
> discoverable. The latter may be through some device specific method
> requiring device specific tools to collect the data.
> PMT provides a solution for discovering and reading telemetry from a
> device through a hardware agnostic framework that allows for updates
> to systems without requiring patches to the kernel or software tools.
> The current capabilities defined by PMT are Telemetry, Watcher, and
> Crashlog.
> PMT defines several capabilities to support collecting monitoring data
> from hardware. All are discoverable as separate instances of the PCIE
> Designated Vendor extended capability (DVSEC) with the Intel vendor code.
># Intel Software Defined Silicon Driver (SDSi)
> CONFIG_INTEL_SDSI=m
> Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is a post manufacturing mechanism for
> activating additional silicon features. Features are enabled through a
> license activation process. The SDSi driver provides a per socket, sysfs
> attribute interface for applications to perform 3 main provisioning
> functions:
> 1. Provision an Authentication Key Certificate (AKC), a key written to
> internal NVRAM that is used to authenticate a capability specific
> activation payload.
> 2. Provision a Capability Activation Payload (CAP), a token authenticated
> using the AKC and applied to the CPU configuration to activate a new
> feature.
> 3. Read the SDSi State Certificate, containing the CPU configuration
> state.
> The operations perform function specific mailbox commands that forward the
> requests to SDSi hardware to perform authentication of the payloads and
> enable the silicon configuration (to be made available after power
> cycling).
> The SDSi device itself is enumerated as an auxiliary device from the
> intel_vsec driver and as such has a build dependency on CONFIG_INTEL_VSEC.
> Link: https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi
12of11 · 2025-09-09 10:13
look at these wankers, ya'll are like wankservitives allowing pedo then gay and now your kids are gay and thats okay 'cuz they're not trans. i didn't even know there's PMT now, never even got IME or PSP. retarded wankers
Joey · 2025-09-09 10:39
>>88765
no u
(body to short)