Re: [PATCH RFC v7 37/64] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SNP_INIT command

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 04:49:14PM -0600, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> There was an early firmware issue on Genoa which supported only SNP_INIT or
> SEV_INIT, but this issue is resolved now.
> 
> Now, the main constraints are that SNP_INIT is always required before
> SEV_INIT in case we want to launch SNP guests. In other words, if only
> SEV_INIT is done on a platform which supports SNP we won't be able to launch
> SNP guests after that.
> 
> So once we have RMP table setup (in BIOS) we will always do an SNP_INIT and
> SEV_INIT will be ideally done only (on demand) when an SEV guest is
> launched.

OK, thanks for the clarification!

BR, Jarkko