OT - Trusted Boot project in F16

[JB]

Joe Wulf <joe_wulf <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> ... 
> Um another question come to mind, like, will such an OS still boot/work on
> Intel (and AMD?) CPUs, say older ones, that don't have the TPM?
> 
> R,
> -Joe Wulf
> ...

$ rpm -ql tboot
...
/usr/share/doc/tboot-20110429/README
Overview of Tboot Functionality:
...
o  Measured Launch.  If the processor is detected as being TXT-capable
   and enabled then the code will attempt to perform a measured launch.  If
   the measured launch process fails (processor is not capable, TXT is not
   enabled, missing SINIT, corrupted data, etc.)) then it will fall-through
   to a non-TXT boot.

JB