enable CONFIG_INTEL_TXT

[Chris Wright]

* Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 11:58 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) wrote:
> >> On 04/01/2010 11:34 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
> >>> Isn't that what we do with kernel-firmware? :-)
> > 
> > And microcode updates and BIOS calls...
> > 
> >> Yes, but we only do that because it is the only way to enable that
> >> hardware to work.
> > 
> > Some of which is obscure hardware.  And TXT needs SINIT AC to work.
> > It's just inconsistent reasoning.
> 
> I don't agree that enabling a specific chunk of proprietary software in
> an unsupportable configuration is the same thing as including firmware
> which enables hardware functionality.

How is device firmware or BIOS problem supportable?  To me, this
reasoning would lead straight to e.g. "# CONFIG_EFI is not set"

thanks,
-chris