Re: [PATCH 1/3] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver

From: David E. Box
Date: Tue Feb 01 2022 - 07:32:54 EST


On Tue, 2022-02-01 at 09:45 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 07:04:22PM -0800, David E. Box wrote:
> > Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is a post manufacturing mechanism for
> > activating additional silicon features. Features are enabled through a
> > license activation process. The SDSi driver provides a per socket, sysfs
> > attribute interface for applications to perform 3 main provisioning
> > functions:
> >
> > 1. Provision an Authentication Key Certificate (AKC), a key written to
> > internal NVRAM that is used to authenticate a capability specific
> > activation payload.
> >
> > 2. Provision a Capability Activation Payload (CAP), a token authenticated
> > using the AKC and applied to the CPU configuration to activate a new
> > feature.
> >
> > 3. Read the SDSi State Certificate, containing the CPU configuration
> > state.
> >
> > The operations perform function specific mailbox commands that forward the
> > requests to SDSi hardware to perform authentication of the payloads and
> > enable the silicon configuration (to be made available after power
> > cycling).
> >
> > The SDSi device itself is enumerated as an auxiliary device from the
> > intel_vsec driver and as such has a build dependency on CONFIG_INTEL_VSEC.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi
> > Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <markgross@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel_sdsi | 77 +++
> > MAINTAINERS | 5 +
> > drivers/platform/x86/intel/Kconfig | 12 +
> > drivers/platform/x86/intel/Makefile | 2 +
> > drivers/platform/x86/intel/sdsi.c | 571 ++++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/platform/x86/intel/vsec.c | 12 +-
> > 6 files changed, 678 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel_sdsi
> > create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/intel/sdsi.c
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel_sdsi
> > b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel_sdsi
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..126978647e9b
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel_sdsi
> > @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
> > +What: /sys/bus/auxiliary/devices/intel_vsec.sdsi.X
> > +Date: Dec 2021
> > +KernelVersion: 5.17
>
> 5.17 merge window is long gone now.
>
> Please be more careful.
>

Thanks.