Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:10:09 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 11/11] intel_sgx: driver documentation |
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 01:41:45AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > In potential deployments of SGX, the owner could do this either in the > firmware level or OS level depending whether the MSRs are configured as > writable in the feature control. > > One option would be to have a config flag to decide whether to require > MSRs to be writable or not.
"potential", "would", "could" - all carefully formulated. :-)
Realistically, though, I'm afraid OEMs would jump on the opportunity to control yet another arch aspect like wasps on honey. So having a way to override what the firmware decided for me - without even asking me - would be RealGood(tm).
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
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