Re: [PATCH 0/4] Intel TXT driver
From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 09 2013 - 08:03:33 EST
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 08:19 +0000, Ren, Qiaowei wrote:
> On 2013-05-08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 22:55 +0800, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> >> This module is expected to be a better tool to access below resources
> >> - TXT config space
> >> - Tboot log mem
> >> - SMX parameter
> >
> > What's SMX?
>
> Safer Mode Extensions (SMX) provide a programming interface for system software to establish a measured environment within the platform to support trust decisions by end users. SMX functionality is provided in an Intel 64 processor through the GETSEC instruction via leaf functions.
Great. Can you include that in the patches and help text?
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