Re: SGX Linux-Compatible Hardware

[乾越 <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>]

https://github.com/ayeks/SGX-hardware provides a nice tool to check the
sgx capability. It
reported 2 SGX2 platforms with FLC support.

Jia

On 2021/3/9 上午9:04, Dave Hansen wrote:
> As everyone probably knows, the upstream kernel SGX support refuses to
> run on some SGX hardware.  Linux requires that the Launch Control MSRs
> be writable, which is sometimes known as "Flexible Launch Control"
> support.  If those MSRs are not writable, Linux will ignore the presence
> of otherwise SGX-capable hardware.
>
> It can be somewhat challenging to find hardware which works.  For
> instance I've got a i7-8086K which has all of the processor support
> required for SGX, but the system firmware still opts to lock the Launch
> Control MSRs.
>
> I wanted to report that an Intel NUC7CJYH successfully runs enclaves on
> Linux out of the box.  The Intel hardware compatibility list[1] is a bit
> scary, so I've also included a link to the exact memory that I got.
> 16GB of RAM seems to work just fine despite what the Intel Ark pages on
> the CPU says[2].
>
> One little annoyance is that although it came with an A/C adapter, it
> didn't come with a power cord.  There's a link to one of those below too.
>
>> https://www.newegg.com/intel-boxnuc7cjyh/p/1VK-004K-001W5
>> https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-260-pin-ddr4-so-dimm/p/N82E16820232154?Item=N82E16820232154
>> https://www.newegg.com/startech-3-ft-black-standard-power-cord/p/N82E16812400031
> 1. https://compatibleproducts.intel.com/ProductDetails?EPMID=126135
> 2.
> https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/128992/intel-celeron-j4005-processor-4m-cache-up-to-2-70-ghz.html