Re: [PATCH v14 00/19] x86: Trenchboot secure dynamic launch Linux kernel support

Andrew Cooper
2025-04-22T18:17:46Z

On 21/04/2025 9:52 pm, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Purely from the amount of interest and review tags and the whole "v14"
> thing, it doesn't look like this is very important to anyone. Not to be
> to flippant about it, but if nobody else cares, why should I (or the
> other x86 maintainers)?

There are several downstreams already using this as a part of their
overall system security, one example being
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/anti-evil-maid/

It's all giant out-of-tree patch series (in multiple projects; Grub,
Xen, iPXE too).  Ross and others are trying to be good open source
citizen and put it upstream where yet-more downstreams can benefit too.

~Andrew