On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:51 +1100, James Morris wrote: > 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. Done and done. We are turning on an upstream config option..... > > > 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). Done... > - We should not be adding kernel infrastructure to support proprietary, > closed source We aren't... > - 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. What is this code you speak of? -Eric _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
