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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/25] x86/cpufeatures: Add SGX1 and SGX2 sub-features
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:43:06 -0600, Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2021-03-01 at 12:32 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 12:28:27AM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
>> > I think some script can utilize /proc/cpuinfo. For instance, admin
>> can have
>> > automation tool/script to deploy enclave (with sgx2) apps, and that
>> script can check
>> > whether platform supports sgx2 or not, before it can deploy those
>> enclave apps. Or
>> > enclave author may just want to check /proc/cpuinfo to know whether
>> the machine can
>> > be used for testing sgx2 enclave or not.
>>
>> This doesn't sound like a concrete use of this. So you can hide it
>> initially with "" until you guys have a use case. Exposing it later is
>> always easy vs exposing it now and then not being able to change it
>> anymore.
>>
>
> Hi Haitao, Jarkko,
>
> Do you have more concrete use case of needing "sgx2" in /proc/cpuinfo?
>

I don't have specific use cases so far. But I think users would expect all
sub-features supported by the cpu in /proc/cpuinfo. And it is a more
convenient and readily available tool than cpuid for verifying sgx2
enabled in HW. So it'd be just nice for cpuinfo to be consistent with
cpuid output.

Thanks
Haitao

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