linux-kernel - RE: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] TXT: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support

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Message-ID: <D936D925018D154694D8A362EEB0892005B12CD5@orsmsx416.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:39:09 -0700
From:	"Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@...el.com>
To:	"Chris Wright" <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Wang, Shane" <shane.wang@...el.com>,
	"Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@...el.com>,
	"Van De Ven, Arjan" <arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@...el.com>,
	"Chris Wright" <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>, <mingo@...e.hu>,
	<tytso@....edu>
Subject: RE: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] TXT: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support

> From: Chris Wright [mailto:chrisw@...s-sol.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:28 AM
> 
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@...p.org) wrote:
> > Cihula, Joseph wrote:
> >> --- a/security/Kconfig	Mon Oct 06 12:50:47 2008 -0700
> >> +++ b/security/Kconfig	Tue Oct 07 00:13:02 2008 -0700
> >> @@ -115,6 +115,23 @@ config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
> >>  	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
> >>   +config TXT
> >
> > This should be X86_TXT; perhaps even X86_INTEL_TXT unless someone
else
> > is likely to implement this stuff.  ("TXT" is awfully generic.)
> 
> config NOTEPAD_EXE? (sorry, couldn't resist ;-)

Nobody in Linux-land uses the .txt file extension, so no conflicts,
right ;-)

We'll add some prefix for the next version, as Jeremy suggests.

> Is there anything for ia64?

Not at this time, but we're taking requests ;-)

Joe
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