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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 21/04/2025 9:52 pm, Dave Hansen wrote: > Purely from the amount of interest and review tags and the whole "v14" > thing, it doesn't look like this is very important to anyone. Not to be > to flippant about it, but if nobody else cares, why should I (or the > other x86 maintainers)? There are several downstreams already using this as a part of their overall system security, one example being https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/anti-evil-maid/ It's all giant out-of-tree patch series (in multiple projects; Grub, Xen, iPXE too).  Ross and others are trying to be good open source citizen and put it upstream where yet-more downstreams can benefit too. ~Andrew