Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:29:16 -0400 | From | Peter Jones <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v5][PATCH 0b/4] intel_txt: Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology support for Linux - Details |
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On 06/23/2009 05:04 PM, Cihula, Joseph wrote: >> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, >> June 23, 2009 2:11 AM >> >> Is there a summary of what has changes from RFC v4 ? > > - The monolithic patch was broken into four patches that represent > discrete functionality (boot and build, reboot/halt shutdown, Sx > shutdown, forcing DMAR on). An appropriate (and more descriptive) > patch description was added to each patch. > > - Small stylistic cleanups (capitalization, comment wording, > whitespace, etc.). > > - The code in hwsleep.c that populated the tboot ACPI structures was > moved into its own function in tboot.c. > > - Use pr_warning(), pr_info(), pr_debug(). > > - Moved some #include's from the middle of tboot.c to the top. > > - Changed the memory type of the tboot shared page from > E820_UNUSABLE to E820_RESERVED (really a change to tboot, but > requires a change here in the checking code). > > And the new patches that I'm about to send have notes in the top > indicating their changes from the previous versions.
So it still requires a giant binary blob to be loaded into main memory to be executed by the main CPU with full privileges (or plausibly even more lattitude than kernel normally has), right?
-- Peter
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