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

From: David E. Box
Date: Thu Nov 17 2022 - 11:01:15 EST


On Thu, 2022-11-17 at 15:01 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 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 .

Will do. Thanks Hans, Andy.

>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>