enable CONFIG_INTEL_TXT

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Mar 31 22:24:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Eric Paris wrote:

> At the time the objection to this configuration option was that the
> technology was all predicated on a closed source binary blob signed by
> Intel.  In private discussions it was learned that there was no chance
> that the module would ever be open sourced and we learned that hardware
> is not capable of recognizing signatures of a module from other vendors
> (aka Fedora can't sign our own version.)

Also, why is there no chance of this being open sourced?

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James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>


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