On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Cihula, Joseph
<joseph.cih...@intel.com> wrote:
>> 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 ;-).

We're definitely looking into that and will let you know if we get
something working.

Thanks,

-Mike

>
> 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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