Re: [PATCH 0/9] Extend Intel On Demand (SDSi) support

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Thu Nov 17 2022 - 09:02:51 EST


Hi David,

On 11/1/22 20:10, David E. Box wrote:
> Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is now known as Intel On Demand. The
> following patches do the following:
>
> 1. Identify the driver/tools as Intel On Demand. Only text descriptions are
> changed. Kconfig and filenames remain the same.
> 2. Perform some attribute cleanup by preventing the showing of files when
> features are not supported.
> 3. Adds support for a new GUID. GUIDs are used to identify the layout of
> the On Demand registers in sysfs. Layouts are described in the
> documentation on github [1].
> 4. Add support for reading On Demand meter certificates in sysfs.
> 5. The rest of the patches modify the existing tool to support discovery
> and reading of On Demand registers and the meter certificate.
>
> [1] https://github.com/intel/intel-sdsi/blob/master/os-interface.rst
>
> David E. Box (9):
> platform/x86/intel/sdsi: Add Intel On Demand text
> platform/x86/intel/sdsi: Hide attributes if hardware doesn't support
> platform/x86/intel/sdsi: Support different GUIDs
> platform/x86/intel/sdsi: Add meter certificate support
> tools/arch/x86: intel_sdsi: Add support for reading state certificates
> tools/arch/x86: intel_sdsi: Add Intel On Demand text
> tools/arch/x86: intel_sdsi: Read more On Demand registers
> tools/arch/x86: intel_sdsi: Add support for new GUID
> tools/arch/x86: intel_sdsi: Add support for reading meter certificates

Thank you, over all this looks good. I have some small remarks
on patches 4, 8 and 9 see my replies to those.

Please prepare a v2 addressing Andy's + my review remarks and get
that v2 to me no later then next week Tuesday, then I can still
merge this in time for 6.2 .

Regards,

Hans