On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 17:17, Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote: > Well, I believe all the kernel can do is supply bits of information - > just like MSRs - and depending on the settings of those bits, userspace > can decide what the situation is. For example: > bit 0 - CPUID support > bit 1 - BIOS enabled
Yes, something like this would be entirely fine for my purpose -- I don't mind where or how I get the data out of the kernel, but parsing the entire systemd journal for a magic string is something I really want to avoid. Richard.