Merge tag 'tsm-for-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux
Pull unified attestation reporting from Dan Williams: "In an ideal world there would be a cross-vendor standard attestation report format for confidential guests along with a common device definition to act as the transport. In the real world the situation ended up with multiple platform vendors inventing their own attestation report formats with the SEV-SNP implementation being a first mover to define a custom sev-guest character device and corresponding ioctl(). Later, this configfs-tsm proposal intercepted an attempt to add a tdx-guest character device and a corresponding new ioctl(). It also anticipated ARM and RISC-V showing up with more chardevs and more ioctls(). The proposal takes for granted that Linux tolerates the vendor report format differentiation until a standard arrives. From talking with folks involved, it sounds like that standardization work is unlikely to resolve anytime soo...
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