On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:37:47AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > 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. > > maks, looks like you disabled them. comments?
back in the 2005 days there was _zero_ userspace for them, thus they were useless. i'm ok to reconsider the old decision and to sync with fedora. i'll reenable them on trunk once buildserver is back. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
