CONFIG_SEV_GUEST: AMD SEV Guest driver

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_SEV_GUEST:

• prompt: AMD SEV Guest driver
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
• defined in drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.19, 6.0–6.11, 6.12-rc+HEAD
• modules built: sev-guest

Help text

SEV-SNP firmware provides the guest a mechanism to communicate with the PSP without risk from a malicious hypervisor who wishes to read, alter, drop or replay the messages sent. The driver provides userspace interface to communicate with the PSP to request the attestation report and more.

If you choose 'M' here, this module will be called sev-guest.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module sev-guest CONFIG_SEV_GUEST : drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/Kconfig : "AMD SEV Guest driver" # in 5.19, 6.0–6.11, 6.12-rc+HEAD
• lkddb platform "sev-guest" : CONFIG_SEV_GUEST CONFIG_VIRT_DRIVERS : drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c # in 5.19, 6.0–6.11, 6.12-rc+HEAD

Sources

This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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