Re: [PATCH RESEND V2 4/6] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver

[Greg KH]

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

There is no code at this link :(