[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS Digest, Vol 72, Issue 33

[Stefan Berger]

"Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote on 12/22/2015 10:40:03 AM:


> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:50:07AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote on 12/17/2015 05:22:56 PM:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:32:05AM +0000, Wim Vervoorn wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I noticed that a lot of work is going on for the TPM support in 
> > SeaBIOS.
> > > > 
> > > > All of this work is TPM 1.2 based. I was wondering if there are 
any
> > > > plans to support TPM 2.0 in the future.
> > > 
> > > I'm not aware of any plans.
> > 
> > We're working on it...
> > 
> > 
> > So maybe you have some comments to the following:
> > 
> > There will be a patch for probing the TPM TIS hardware interface for 
> > whether there's a TPM 1.2 or a TPM 2.
> > We then have a patch for prefixing all TPM 1.2 functions with tpm12_ 
and 
> > then introduce functions like these ones here:
> > 
> > static ... tpm12_foo() { ... }
> > static ... tpm2_foo() { ... }
> > 
> > tpm_foo()
> > {
> >     [...]
> > 
> >     switch (tpmversion) {
> >     case TPM_VERSION_1_2:
> >         tpm12_foo()
> >         break;
> >     case TPM_VERSION_2:
> >         tpm2_foo();
> >         break;
> >     }
> > 
> >     [...]
> > }
> 
> Is the difference between 1.2 and 2.0 so large that the above is
> needed?

TPM 2 and TPM 1.2 have completely different commands, so yes, 
unfortunately it's needed.

   Stefan


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