On Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 2:45 PM EEST, Jo Van Bulck wrote: > On 10.10.23 11:44, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > Folks (sorry for top posting): I've now taken my old NUC7 out of the > > dust and tested the series :-) > > > > Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks for testing this Jarkko! Not sure on next steps, do you want me > to re-post the series with the Tested-by tag for all commits or will you > add that? Let me know if something from my side is needed. Dave, can you pick these patches to the x86 tree with my tested-by added? Sorry for latency. It is flu season in Finland and I've been functional varying last week because of that. > > Off-topic: I wish both Intel and AMD straighten up and deliver some "home friendly" development hardware for the latest stuff. Just my > > stance but the biggest quality risk I see in both TDX and SNP is that > > the patches are made by an enterprise and reviewed (properly) *only* > > by other huge enterprises. > > Yes, I totally agree on this. It is really unfortunate that things like > SGX are not (anymore) available on home consumer hardware and you have > to buy expensive servers for this, which also change every new CPU > generation. Having some kind of "developer boards" like is more the case > in embedded systems would be a great and very welcome evolution, if only > it were to happen.. > > > I skim status of both from time to time but yeah not much attachment > > or motivation to do more than that as you either need a cloud access > > or partnership with Intel or AMD. "Indie" style seems to be disliked > > these days... You can extrapolate from this that there must be a bunch > > of maintainers around the Linux kernel that feel the same. Not saying > > that particularly my contribution would be that important. > > > > Sort of even if let's say Intel would provide me a partner access I > > might not be that interested because I prefer my own (physical) > > computers. > > I also understand this and share the concern. FWIW for some things > (e.g., uarch attack research) remote access does also not really hold up > to bare-metal access IMO. > > Best, > Jo BR, Jarkko
