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Add support for reading On Demand meter certificates in sysfs.ĥ. Layouts are described in the documentation on github.Ĥ. GUIDs are used to identify the layout of the On Demand registers in sysfs. Perform some attribute cleanup by preventing the showing of files when features are not supported.ģ. Identify the driver/tools as Intel On Demand. With today's Linux kernel patches that just hit the mailing list a few minutes ago, the following adjustments are made to the open-source driver:ġ. But the pricing and exact details have yet to be made public beyond noting it will be around AI / analytics / networking / storage. Intel also noted at the event that through this Intel On Demand activation model, additional accelerators can be enabled and other features. Intel confirmed at the Innovation event in September that their forthcoming Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" processors do feature this On Demand option. Indeed, with today's patches to update the SDSi driver it has begun to adjust the naming from Software Defined Silicon to calling it Intel On Demand. The SDSi driver was merged in Linux 5.18 while this afternoon they sent out a rather sizable update to this controversial driver / hardware feature.Īs I wrote back at the end of September, Software Defined Silicon is what Intel is now promoting as "Intel On Demand".

Going back to late last year Intel began working on a new Linux driver for "Software Defined Silicon" as a means of activating licensed hardware features akin to what they tried a decade ago with the "Intel Upgrade Service" for unlocking extra CPU features.