On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 04:39:23AM -0600, Dr. Greg wrote: > Jarkko, when this driver lands it will set the SGX ABI in stone for > Linux. It would be very, very helpful to the development community if > there was some official guidance from Intel on whether or not FLC will > be a universal feature on all hardware and the date that is going to > happen or has happened. I seriously don't know but I can take this message to the mothership... > If this turns out to be an OEM selectable issue via firmware > customizations, things will be even more problematic. Point taken. > As things stand now, the proposed mainline SGX driver is going to be > useless for a lot of hardware that is out in the field. Linux has > always had the reputation for supporting legacy hardware so this > directly contravenes that principal and needlessly so. I do get your point about supporting the legacy. I'm wondering if this is still a deal breaker for Linux or not. /Jarkko
