[PATCH v11 00/20] x86: Trenchboot secure dynamic launch Linux kernel support

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko at kernel.org
Fri Nov 1 15:18:39 PDT 2024


On Sat Nov 2, 2024 at 12:04 AM EET, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01 2024 at 23:19, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri Nov 1, 2024 at 11:13 PM EET, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >> I think we can sort them out independently as long as we find a
> >> conclusion how to address locality change.
> >
> > And to be fair: there was no reaction from anyone. It is mostly x86
> > patch set, meaning that I was waiting for some reaction first from that
> > side.  And I did respond to that when it came.
>
> The x86 side is mostly self contained, so the damage there is minimal,
> but the TPM parts are changing the generic operations and the x86 parts
> depend on them.
>
> So let's not create a chicken and egg problem and solve the TPM parts,
> which at my cursory glance are partially legitimate fixes, independent
> of the actual trenchboot x86 functionality.

Yeah, I'm already writing a (draft/RFC) patch to demonstrate my
proposal that I sent so all good.

>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx

BR, Jarkko



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