Re: New "IndustryStandard" fw_cfg?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> Per my understanding, Unaccepted Memory in UEFI is introduced for
> confidential VMs, i.e., for Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP. The only reason
> UEFI/OVMF reports "Unaccepted Memory" to OS, is a confidential VM is
> desired.

No.  Reporting "Unaccepted Memory" to the OS is not a hard requirement
for confidential VMs, it only optimizes boot times.  Instead of doing
that time-consuming process in the firmware for all memory we tell the
guest OS which memory is accepted already and which is not.  So the
guest OS can go accept the remaining memory in a background process.

take care,
  Gerd