Re: [PATCH 5/5] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver

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On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 03:47:23AM -0700, David E. Box wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-10-01 at 09:16 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 06:28:15PM -0700, 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, ioctl
> > > 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 ioctl 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_extended_caps driver and as such has a build dependency on
> > > CONFIG_INTEL_EXTENDED_CAPS.
> > > 
> > > Link: https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi
> > > Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I do not see the "required" review that Intel developers need when
> > sending stuff to me.  What happened here?
> 
> Ah. You were added because of the doc change. Normally, the changes to the driver wouldn't have gone
> through you. So it's just a miss on that. But it been through internal review.

Then where is the "reviewed-by:" line that shows this happened?



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