[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS Digest, Vol 72, Issue 33

[Stefan Berger]

"Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote on 01/07/2016 03:14:37 PM:

> 
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:57:42PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > At some point I'll bring the TPM 2 patches back to life following the 
many
> > recent changes... Now my question is how to organize the code. Should 
there
> > be one file where we essentially have the above type of code branching 
into
> > TPM 1.2 & TPM 2 specific functions and TPM 1.2 and TPM 2 code in 
separate
> > files or the above type of functions at the end of the current file 
and then
> > a section with TPM 1.2 code and another with TPM 2? It's a few patches
> > building on top of each other, so want to avoid churn...
> 
> I was playing with a few additional patches on top of your last series
> - I pushed them to my testing branch if you want to take a look.
> 
> I don't have input on what TPM2 organization should look like, mainly
> because I don't know what TPM2 entails.  I gather the TIS commands are
> changing, but what else changes?  Does the ACPI log, BIOS interface,
> or tpm menu change?  Do you have a pointer to the TPM2 spec (when I
> last looked it seemed that TPM2 was still being worked on).

The TIS got more registers; some flags allow detection of the TPM version.

All commands changed -- no backwards compatibility. The header 'fields' 
are the same, their ordinal and tag values are not.

Spec: 
http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/resources/tpm_library_specification

Regards,
   Stefan

> 
> -Kevin
> 


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