On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Cihula, Joseph
<joseph.cih...@intel.com> wrote:
>> From: Mike Detwiler [mailto:j.michael.detwi...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:22 PM
>>
>> Hi, just wondering if anyone had any thought on this.
>
> Tboot does not have EFI support.  In addition to what it would need to do 
> with regards to getting the memory map and ACPI tables, it would also need to 
> fill in the OsSinitData.EfiRsdtPtr with the correct value (and this being 0 
> is what is generating the SINIT error).

Thanks for the response, Joe. Does this imply that the current i5/i7
SINIT ACM available from sourceforge has all the bits necessary for
EFI, and as soon as tboot support is added everything should work?

-Mike

>
> We do intend to eventually add EFI support (or will take a patch if one is 
> offered ;-).
>
> Joe
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Mike Detwiler 
>> <j.michael.detwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > We can successfully execute tboot with grub2 built as a legacy
>> > bootloader and selecting the legacy boot option in our Insyde BIOS.
>> > However, if we build grub2 for EFI and select EFI boot in the BIOS, we
>> > get a system reset after GETSEC[SENTER].
>> >
>> > The output from parse_err:
>> >
>> > AC module error : acm_type=0x1, progress=0x0a, error=0x2
>> >
>> > which translates to: "RSDP ACPI table checksum invalid"
>> >
>> > in the sinit_errors.txt from i5_i7_DUAL-SINIT.tar.gz.
>> >
>> > We're running the latest tboot from bughost.org.
>> >
>> > Does tboot support EFI booting? It's curious that everything works
>> > with a legacy boot, but not with EFI. Is this an indication of a
>> > possible BIOS bug?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -Mike
>> >
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