intel/intel-sdsi

Introduction

Intel® Xeon® family processors with support for Intel® On Demand (formerly known as Software Defined Silicon or SDSi) allow the configuration of additional CPU features through a license activation process.

Documentation in this repository provides information about the OS interface used to communicate with On Demand hardware/firmware to perform CPU provisioning and other related tasks.

Documents

• os-interface.rst describes On Demand enumeration, mailbox structure, mailbox commands, and registers.
• state-certificate-encoding.rst describes the structure of the state certificate.
• meter-certificate.rst describes the structure of the meter certificate.
• attestation.rst describes the attestation services.

intel-sdsi's Issues

Complete scam

Only a matter of time before you bring this to end user CPUs and we have to pay monthly to overclock or even pay per months of usage. You should be ashamed of yourselves as developers.

Uncle Ted was right.

Feature request: option for monthly payment

Counting power cycles might not be ideal for some environments with frequent power outages as the licence would expire too often and that would probably result in angry refund requests. Also, in enviromnents where a CPU runs almost forever without a power cycle, for example, in data centers, the licence would effectively turn into a one-time purchase. I think a higher customer lifetime value could be achieved with a monthly payment system. "Pay as you game!", "Rent your own CPU for as low as $5/mo" - there are lots of marketing opportunities here to unlock.

Another idea: consider achieving even more granularity of payments by applying the same technique in a per-core model.

Uncle bob was right, we as programmers and engineers need a code of ethics.

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