Re: [PATCH 02/25] x86/cpufeatures: Add SGX1 and SGX2 sub-features

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Mar 01 2021 - 06:34:59 EST


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.

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