Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.18+6 Severity: wishlist I was looking at trying out Trusted Grub ( http://www.prosec.rub.de/trusted_grub.html ) but found that the stock Debian kernels seem to be built without the required drivers. It appears they were disabled by in commit r3389 to the kernel-svn:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/kernel-svn-changes/2005-June/002083.html As far as I can see the only reason given for this was: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/06/msg00364.html I appreciate that this is an emotive issue for some but I dispute the assertion that these are useless. It seems there are other developers who may be interested in this as well: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409591 As far as I see it, the TPM chip is just a tool, whether it is used by the owner to defend their computer against tampering or whether it is used by $LARGE_CORPORATION as part of a system to take away people's freedoms is a separate human and a political issue. Thus I think it would be nice to have TPM drivers in Debian as then whoever has root on that has the choice of whether or not to use the chip. Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
