Re: [PATCH] hw/misc: applesmc: use host osk as default on macs

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> FWIW, there's an applesmc driver in the Linux kernel, and it exposes
> many of the keys and values stored on the chip under
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768 (or at least it *used* to back when
> I last checked).
>
> My idea at the time was to get this driver to also expose the value of
> OSK0,1, so that userspace programs (like e.g. qemu) could read and use
> the values hardcoded in hardware without needing to hardcode them
> themselves in software.

I guess a frequent use case for running macOS guests with keys from host 
would be on hosts running macOS too so a solution that works both on macOS 
and Linux might be better than a Linux specific one which then needs 
another way to do the same on macOS. Looks like there's free code for that 
too and you don't have to convince a maintainer either.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan