linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] drm: Add Content Protection property

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Message-ID: <20171207143052.533e1e94@alans-desktop>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 14:30:52 +0000
From:   Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] drm: Add Content Protection property

> If you want to actually lock down a machine to implement content
> protection, then you need secure boot without unlockable boot-loader and a
> pile more bits in userspace. 

So let me take my Intel hat off for a moment.

The upstream policy has always been that we don't merge things which
don't have an open usable user space. Is the HDCP encryption feature
useful on its own ? What do users get from it ?

If this is just an enabler for a lump of binary stuff in ChromeOS then I
don't think it belongs, if it is useful standalone then it seems it does
belong ?

Alan