enable CONFIG_INTEL_TXT

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 21:56:29 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:51 PM, James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> 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.
>
>> 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).

What?

This is not a about adding non upstream code to the kernel but
enabling a config option.

So I don't really get what you are saying ...


More information about the kernel mailing list