"Intel did it" is a pretty horrible argument, historically. Especially with things like higher-than-OS trust levels where there are limited ABI guarantees to b

"Intel did it" is a pretty horrible argument, historically. Especially with things like higher-than-OS trust levels where there are limited ABI guarantees to begin with, it might be better to redo things incompatibly if that provides a better solution than "this newly introduced mechanism of unknown quality asserts that this other mechanism of known-bad quality won't mess things up". Intel TXT is one such "guard" mechanism. It tore larger holes in the security fabric than the mechanisms it was supposed to keep watch over.