On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:40 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > Long ago we were ask to enable CONFIG_INTEL_TXT in the fedora kernels by > a large user, the US National Security Agency: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2009-October/002228.html > > At the time the objection to this configuration option was that the > technology was all predicated on a closed source binary blob signed by > Intel. In private discussions it was learned that there was no chance > that the module would ever be open sourced and we learned that hardware > is not capable of recognizing signatures of a module from other vendors > (aka Fedora can't sign our own version.) However, in light of a recent > public statement from IBM: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-March/133089.html > > We see that at least one hardware vendor has been listening to our > objections to closed source software and has agreed to re-architect how > they implement their systems so that our users will not need to download > and install any closed source proprietary software. They agreed to make > any changes necessary to their BIOS (UEFI) to support this technology > without the need for the separate closed source proprietary Intel signed > blob. Red Hat has ask other hardware vendors to follow the admirable > lead set by IBM if they have any interest in being supported by the open > source community.
I'm not reading that from the IBM message you linked. Do you have some other source for this statement? - ajax
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