Re: [PATCHv7 00/14] mm, x86/cc: Implement support for unaccepted memory

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Marc Orr wrote:
> These feature tags are a mess to keep track of.

Well, looking at those tags, it doesn't look like you'll stop using them
anytime soon.

And once all the required SNP/TDX features are part of the guest image,
- including unaccepted memory - if anything, you'll have less tags.

:-)

> - Do we anticipate (many) more features for confidential compute in
> the future that require code in both the guest FW and guest kernel? If
> yes, then designing a FW-kernel feature negotiation could be useful
> beyond this situation.

Good question.

> - Dave's suggestion to "2. Boot some intermediate thing like a
> bootloader that does acceptance ..." is pretty clever! So if upstream
> thinks this FW-kernel negotiation is not a good direction, maybe we
> (Google) can pursue this idea to avoid introducing yet another tag on
> our images.

Are those tags really that nasty so that you guys are looking at
upstream changes just to avoid them?

Thx.

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    Boris.

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