Re: [PATCH] Ability to read the MKTME status from userspace

From: Richard Hughes
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 12:31:51 EST


On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 17:17, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I believe all the kernel can do is supply bits of information -
> just like MSRs - and depending on the settings of those bits, userspace
> can decide what the situation is. For example:
> bit 0 - CPUID support
> bit 1 - BIOS enabled

Yes, something like this would be entirely fine for my purpose -- I
don't mind where or how I get the data out of the kernel, but parsing
the entire systemd journal for a magic string is something I really
want to avoid.

Richard.