On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Eric Paris wrote: > This config option allows a user to download new (open source) software > (tboot) along with other third party software to verify the correctness > of the BOOTED system. My feeling is that this needs to be dealt with upstream, and that the open source tboot needs to be delivered first. > Are there any objections to enabling CONFIG_INTEL_TXT on x86_64? Yes. - We should be doing kernel development upstream unless there's an extraordinary reason not to (typically, following a request from Linus). - We should not be adding kernel infrastructure to support proprietary, closed source - Especially so, given that this is a security feature I'd love to see support for TXT -- I think we can do some very important things with it, but I don't think it's workable as open source if it depends on closed proprietary code. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
