[SRU][Jammy:linux-intel-iotg][PATCH v3 0/2] i915: Enable HuC authentication for EHL, ICL, and ADL-S

Philip Cox philip.cox at canonical.com
Tue Aug 16 14:20:54 UTC 2022


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1981971

v2: removed magic number in patch 0002, and clean up commit message
       in commit 0001.
v3: added version history to cover letter, and to patch commit messages.

[Impact]
* In the i915 Intel gfx driver, we need to explicitly enable HuC
  authentication.

* This fixes an issue with the Gstreamer media pipeline.  

* This only applies to the ICL, ADL-S, and EHL platforms.

* This patch is only for the linux-intel-iotg kernel.  We have pulled
   in patches from upstream, so the state of this driver is in between
   the upstream 5.15 driver, and the upstream tip-of-tree driver.

[Test Plan]
* Intel has tested this patch.

* I have tested the patch as well.

* To test, the system is booted, and issuing the command:
      sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/gt/uc/huc_info
  will either return the huc info, or it will display
  "HuC disabled"



[Where problems could occur]
* If the installed firmware has been trimmed so that only blobs
    that were in use were retained, when the kernel tried to load
    the HuC blob, it would fail.  This scenario should not happen
    unless someone is mucking about with the installed firmware.
    If that is the case, other things will likely start failing
    as well.



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