Bug 739146

Summary: [6.3 FEAT] Add the dboot package
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: distributionAssignee: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.3CC: jjarvis, jrieden, nobody+PNT0273897, notting, pjones, sbest, syeghiay
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: 6.3   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: All   
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Last Closed: 2011-12-09 17:08:17 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 704634, 705085    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2011-09-16 15:43:45 UTC
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [72589]
a. Name of Feature: [6.3 FEAT] Add the dboot package
b. Feature Description

Please include dboot, the TCG D-RTM spec compliant GRUB stage 2 module: location TBD

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC Security
Architectures:  x86_64, 

Arch Specificity: purely arch specific code
Affects Kernel Modules: No
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from Community
Category: other
Request Type: Package - New
d. Upstream Acceptance: Not Started
Sponsor Priority P2
f. Severity: normal
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: IBM code
g. Component Version Target: ---

3. Business Case
This features implements a TCG D-RTM spec compliant late launch trusted boot loader that is a necessary component to establish verifiable end-to-end integrity via Trusted Computing.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis, jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Stephanie A. Glass, sglass.com

Technical contact(s):
George C. Wilson, gcwilson.com

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-09-16 16:09:01 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-09-21 16:21:07 UTC
------- Comment From sglass.com 2011-09-21 12:14 EDT-------
We accept the rejects and will request this work in RHEL 7.0 line.

Comment 4 John Jarvis 2011-12-09 17:08:17 UTC
Closing as WONTFIX for RHEL 6.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731152 will track RHEL 7.0 consideration.