Re: [PATCH v8 01/40] x86/compressed/64: detect/setup SEV/SME features earlier in boot

Venu Busireddy
2022-01-03T19:11:07Z

On 2021-12-15 15:22:57 -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 09:38:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >
> > But it is hard to discuss anything without patches so we can continue
> > the topic with concrete patches. But this unification is not
> > super-pressing so it can go ontop of the SNP pile.
>
> Yah, it's all theoretical at this point. Didn't mean to derail things
> though. I mainly brought it up to suggest that Venu's original approach of
> returning the encryption bit via a pointer argument might make it easier to
> expand it for other purposes in the future, and that naming it for that
> future purpose might encourage future developers to focus their efforts
> there instead of potentially re-introducing duplicate code.
>
> But either way it's simple enough to rework things when we actually
> cross that bridge. So totally fine with saving all of this as a future
> follow-up, or picking up either of Venu's patches for now if you'd still
> prefer.

So, what is the consensus? Do you want me to submit a patch after the
SNP changes go upstream? Or, do you want to roll in one of the patches
that I posted earlier?

Venu

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