RE: [PATCH v2 2/3] driver: provide sysfs interfaces to access TXTconfig space

From: Ren, Qiaowei
Date: Fri May 17 2013 - 04:50:23 EST


On 2013-05-17, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2013-05-14 01:24:43, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
>> +What: /sys/devices/platform/intel_txt/config/STS_raw +Date: May 2013
>> +KernelVersion: 3.9 +Contact: "Qiaowei Ren" <qiaowei.ren@xxxxxxxxx>
>> +Description: TXT.STS is the general status register. This read-only
>> register + is used by AC modules and the MLE to get the status of
>> various + Intel TXT features.
>
> This is not enough to allow people to understand what this does/should
> do, nor does it allow (for example) ARM people to implement something compatible.

Currently TXT is only a technology for safer computing provided by Intel. I am absolutely not sure whether similar technology will be provided on ARM or other platform in future. But I guess I don't have to consider those future possible implementation on ARM or other platform. :)

Thanks,
Qiaowei
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