[needs-packaging] tboot

[Gang Wei]

Trusted Boot (tboot) is an open source, pre- kernel/VMM module that uses Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM.

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tboot
License: BSD
Notes: Below are some documentations about tboot.

Documentation about tboot functionality
http://www.bughost.org/repos.hg/tboot.hg/file/d36fb3e85062/README

The Intel® TXT Software Development Guide should be able to show you details about what tboot does.
http://download.intel.com/technology/security/downloads/315168.pdf

More documentation about TXT
http://www.intel.com/technology/malwarereduction/index.htm

Documentation about Intel® SMX instructions is included in Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volumes 2, chapter 6, Safer Mode Extensions Reference
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/325383.pdf

[Gang Wei (gang-wei)]

Duplicated as bug 815752. Please close it.