Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver

From: Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Date: Wed Aug 10 2022 - 15:27:41 EST




On 8/10/22 12:09 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 08:44:15PM -0700, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan wrote:
>> In TDX guest, attestation is used to verify the trustworthiness of a TD
>> to other entities before provisioning secrets to the TD.
>
> What is the difference between a TDX guest and a TD?
>
> I'm being told they're one and the same thing. If so, please rewrite

Yes. In this context, TD/TD guest means the same thing. So I will just
use TDX guest uniformly.

> this commit message into something actually readable because right now
> it is real hard to parse what this says.
>
> And pls avoid the Intel marketing bla - that's a write-only text and not
> meant for humans.

Ok. will do.

>
> Thx.
>

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer