Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tpm: tis: add support for MMIO TPM on SynQuacer

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 07:30:10 EST


On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 13:27, Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-01-14 at 15:16 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > When fitted, the SynQuacer platform exposes its SPI TPM via a MMIO
> > window that is backed by the SPI command sequencer in the SPI bus
> > controller. This arrangement has the limitation that only byte size
> > accesses are supported, and so we'll need to provide a separate set
> > of read and write accessors that take this into account.
>
> What is SynQuacer platform?
>

It is an arm64 SoC manufactured by Socionext.

> I'm also missing a resolution why tpm_tis.c is extended to handle both
> and not add tpm_tis_something.c instead. It does not follow the pattern
> we have in place (e.g. look up tpm_tis_spi.c).
>

We could easily do that instead, if preferred. It's just that it would
duplicate a bit of code.