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From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "Annapurve, Vishal" <vannapurve@google.com>,
	"seanjc@google.com" <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: "Xu, Yilun" <yilun.xu@intel.com>,
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	"Wu, Binbin" <binbin.wu@intel.com>,
	"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"kas@kernel.org" <kas@kernel.org>,
	"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Fang, Peter" <peter.fang@intel.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TDG quote analysis
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:44:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ae12b120c7aa2ca56e46bb9a5b2a7b7fc501131.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <arRsRkn1V8A3xUE5@google.com>

On Wed, 2026-09-23 at 17:18 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> From an upstream perspective, I think we don't care?  Or rather, we *shouldn't*
> have to care beyond letting the admin flip a TDX Module switch.  I'm a-ok letting
> end users opt-in to ultra-paranoid mode, with a pile of disclaimers around the
> shortcomings and tradeoffs involved.  I.e. I don't really care how the quote is
> generated, I just don't want to carry any kernel/KVM code to make it less painful
> (and it should absolutely be opt-in).

I think the direction is to basically punt on Linux S3M design for the initial
upstream implementation. But based on today, I think we would have several
options. This is good thing to do for now I think, because the TDX arch side of
S3M based attestation is still fuzzy.

Thanks all for all the attention in helping close out a direction!




  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-24  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-16  0:48 TDG quote analysis Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-16 18:00 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-16 18:49   ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-16 19:27     ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-16 22:31       ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-16 23:00         ` Peter Fang
2026-09-16 23:57           ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-17  0:56             ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-17 13:37               ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-17 18:12                 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-17 19:57                   ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-17 21:32                     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-18  0:04                       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-18  2:39                         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-18 13:13                           ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-18 18:12                             ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-18 21:32                               ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 23:00                                 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-21 23:06                                   ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-23  4:09                                     ` Vishal Annapurve
2026-09-24  0:03                                       ` Vishal Annapurve
2026-09-24  0:18                                         ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-24  0:44                                           ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2026-09-24 16:28                                             ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 23:04                                 ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-21 23:19                                   ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 23:36                                     ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-21 23:46                                       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-22  0:03                                         ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-22  6:48                                           ` Reshetova, Elena
2026-09-22 17:07                                             ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-23  8:50                                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2026-09-23 22:50                                                 ` Peter Fang

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