Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add stub driver for In-Field Scan

Borislav Petkov
2022-05-04T16:29:03Z

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 04:24:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > We really don't need more match id tables with gazillions of CPU models.
>
> Sadly we do :-(

So what was the reasoning about CPUID bits being so expensive so that we
need to match models? Ditto for the splitlock situation - that thing is
supported on a bunch of models but nope, not a CPUID bit in sight. What
was the convincing argument that made hw folks give a CPUID bit to the
PPIN thing? Perhaps we could use it there too. :)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.