Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:34:33 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] TXT: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support |
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* Cihula, Joseph (joseph.cihula@intel.com) wrote: > > From: Chris Wright [mailto:chrisw@sous-sol.org] > > I asked earlier, I didn't understand why it needs to be 2 fields, since > > it's u32 in both cases and can't both be used at once. > > We will look at seeing if we can make a single entry point that detects > if it was called by 64b code, disable IA32e mode, and then jumps to the > 32b code.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. I assumed I missed a piece...
> We did it this way initially because it was easier code to > keep them separate and has been working for some time. We'll also have > to adjust Xen if/when we do this.
...which is just this ease of implementation, thanks.
thanks, -chris
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