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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH][1/4] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology

To: "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xense-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH][1/4] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology support: xen
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:17:45 +0100
Cc: "Xu, James" <james.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Wang, Shane" <shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>, "Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 30/8/07 19:13, "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> That's all for now. The sboot module itself is scary big. :-/
> 
> Actually, to that end, do you have any documentation to go with this
> patchset? It'd be kind of nice to know how to use sboot, what security
> guarantees it can provide, how to use the toolset, etc etc. Otherwise we're
> going to have 20kloc added to our tree that noone knows how to use! Which I
> think means some documentation has to be a pre-condition for acceptance.

The patch summary email is a nice start, by the way, but I think you need
something in our docs directory that goes into a bit more detail. Perhaps
some use cases for sboot? How to use the tools? A plain text file would be
fine -- it's just the content I care about.

 -- Keir


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