On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:50:13PM -0800, 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, sysfs > attribute 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 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_vsec driver and as such has a build dependency on CONFIG_INTEL_VSEC. > > Link: https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi Also, why not put the documentation that you have currently at that link in this commit in the driver itself? That would make it much more self-contained and live longer than some random external web link that could go away at any moment. thanks, greg k-h
