Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V11 5/5] Add a TPM Passthrough backend driver implementation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:23:00AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:

...

> Some notes about the host TPM:
> The TPM needs to be enabled and activated. If that's not the case one
> has to go through the BIOS/UEFI and enable and activate that TPM for TPM
> commands to work as expected.
> It may be necessary to boot the kernel using tpm_tis.force=1 in the boot
> command line or 'modprobe tpm_tis force=1' in case of using it as a module.

...

> Index: qemu-git.pt/configure
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu-git.pt.orig/configure
> +++ qemu-git.pt/configure
> @@ -3565,6 +3565,9 @@ fi
>  
>  if test "$tpm" = "yes"; then
>    if test "$target_softmmu" = "yes" ; then
> +    if test "$linux" = "yes" ; then
> +      echo "CONFIG_TPM_PASSTHROUGH=y" >> $config_target_mak
> +    fi

I think we might want to make this a configure option
separate from tpm. The number of ways this can fail
might make some vendors want to disable this mode.

>      echo "CONFIG_TPM=y" >> $config_host_mak
>    fi
>  fi