Re: [PATCH v7 12/12] Documentation: In-Field Scan

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon May 09 2022 - 08:16:35 EST


On Fri, May 06 2022 at 15:54, Tony Luck wrote:
> Add documentation for In-Field Scan (IFS). This documentation
> describes the basics of IFS, the loading IFS image, chunk
> authentication, running scan and how to check result via sysfs.
>
> The CORE_CAPABILITIES MSR enumerates whether IFS is supported.
>
> The full github location for distributing the IFS images is
> still being decided. So just a placeholder included for now
> in the documentation.
>
> Future CPUs will support more than one type of test. Plan for
> that now by using a "_0" suffix on the ABI directory names.
> Additional test types will use "_1", etc.
>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>