Re: [PATCH v17 18/23] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:45:34AM -0800, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 04:39:23AM -0600, Dr. Greg wrote:
> > Jarkko, when this driver lands it will set the SGX ABI in stone for
> > Linux.  It would be very, very helpful to the development community if
> > there was some official guidance from Intel on whether or not FLC will
> > be a universal feature on all hardware and the date that is going to
> > happen or has happened.
> 
> I seriously don't know but I can take this message to the mothership...

LC enabling is essentially a platform vendors choice, not Intels choice,
like many other CPU features that Linux is dependent on. Of course, if
Linux ends supporting only LC that will without doubt have a big impact
on vendors so in that way it is indirectly also communitys choice.

/Jarkko