Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762035AbZFXUa3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753018AbZFXUaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:21 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:37339 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752388AbZFXUaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4A428C9C.6080702@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:29:16 -0400 From: Peter Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Cihula, Joseph" CC: Alan Cox , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "arjan@linux.intel.com" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "andi@firstfloor.org" , "chrisw@sous-sol.org" , "jmorris@namei.org" , "jbeulich@novell.com" , "peterm@redhat.com" , "Wei, Gang" , "Wang, Shane" Subject: Re: [RFC v5][PATCH 0b/4] intel_txt: Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology support for Linux - Details References: <4A4024B6.2060600@intel.com> <20090623101110.60c0974d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4F65016F6CB04E49BFFA15D4F7B798D9A2A3C1AE@orsmsx506.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4F65016F6CB04E49BFFA15D4F7B798D9A2A3C1AE@orsmsx506.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1530 Lines: 39 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/