> From: Mike Detwiler [mailto:j.michael.detwi...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:31 AM
> 
> 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?

Correct (again, patches welcome ;-).

Joe

> 
> -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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