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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Add Intel IOMMU debugfs support
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On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 14:25 -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> I didn't know about chipsec but reading the code seems to rely on an
> out-of-tree kernel module. I don't think it matches what we need here.

Yes good indeed, I had forgot about that. Maybe the userland part is still
useful, but there's definitely a need for (protected) access to privileged
memory (and access to /dev/mem is less practical than debugfs, I guess).

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