Re: [PATCH v30 04/20] x86/sgx: Add SGX microarchitectural data structures

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 14:47:57 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 03:43:54AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> +/**
> + * struct sgx_sigstruct_header - defines author of the enclave
> + * @header1: constant byte string
> + * @vendor: must be either 0x0000 or 0x8086

Out of pure curiosity: what is that about?

Nothing in the patchset enforces this, so hw does? If so, why?

Are those vendor IDs going to be assigned by someone or what's up?

Thx.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette