On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:50:07PM +0100, David Kozub wrote: > This patch series extends SED OPAL support: it adds IOCTL for setting the shadow > MBR done flag which can be useful for unlocking an OPAL disk on boot and it adds > IOCTL for writing to the shadow MBR. Also included are some minor fixes and > improvements. Actually most of it is really useful cleanups and small fixes for the existing OPAL code. Any chance you could resend just those bits as a first series ASAP? I'll try to spend some time to to review the actual feature additions in the meantime. > There is a fork of sed-opal-temp that can use these new IOCTLs.[2] I tested > these on Samsung 840 EVO and 850 EVO drives, on x86-64 and arm64 systems. Which brings up another question: how do we get a properly maintained version of the sed-opal tool up ASAP? It's been a bit bitrotting unfortunately, and the documentation and error handling hasn't been all that great to start with. Are we going to find a good home for it? Util-linux for example?
