Re: [tboot-devel] Detect if Vt-D is enabled

2017-03-24 Thread Sahil Rihan
Hi Ning, You’re right that usually TXT and Vt-D are enabled together in the BIOS. However, it’s possible that due to errors in tooling, or because the system BIOS or settings were modified, the Vt-D setting is accidentally cleared. Tboot is good about checking for SMX and VMX, which makes it mo

Re: [tboot-devel] Detect if Vt-D is enabled

2017-03-23 Thread Sun, Ning
Generally, when VT-d is disabled in the BIOS, Intel TXT is also in disabled state, tboot will boot into kernel directly without triggering Getsec[senter]. Meanwhile, it looks like the testing method below is not sufficient to verify your patch, as current tboot can achieve your testing goal with