Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] TPM: Issue TPM_STARTUP at driver load ifthe TPM has not been started

[Jonathan McCune]

Hi Jason,

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The TPM will respond to TPM_GET_CAP with TPM_ERR_INVALID_POSTINIT if
> TPM_STARTUP has not been issued. This will result in the TPM driver
> failing to load and no way to recover. Detect this and automatically
> issue TPM_STARTUP.
>
> This is for embedded applications where the kernel is the first thing
> to touch the TPM.

I welcome such functionality.  Thanks for your efforts.

Regards,
-Jon
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