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

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:01:52 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     "David E. Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>, markgross@...nel.org,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com
Cc:     platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Extend Intel On Demand (SDSi) support

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