Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] tpm: add mssim backend

[Stefan Berger]

On 12/19/22 08:55, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 08:51 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > On 12/19/22 08:13, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> > >
> > > The requested feedback was to convert the tpmdev handler to being
> > > json based, which requires rethreading all the backends.  The good
> > > news is this reduced quite a bit of code (especially as I converted
> > > it to error_fatal handling as well, which removes the return status
> > > threading).  The bad news is I can't test any of the conversions.
> > > swtpm still isn't building on opensuse and, apparently, passthrough
> >
> > The package seems to be available:
> > https://software.opensuse.org/package/swtpm
>
> It's not building for any of the platforms I currently have.

You would have to tell me what is failing. I have been building it for several 
platforms for a while and the build works, including OpenSuSE Tumbleweed:


https://app.travis-ci.com/github/stefanberger/swtpm-distro-compile/builds/258769183

There have been issues with what seems to be seccomp policy on 2 of these 
platforms for a while but this is unrelated to SuSE and build issues -- 
obviously.

   Stefan

> I think I've tested most of the option processing, though, before it
> tells me it can't connect.
>
> > I'll get to looking at this in more depth once I am back in office.
>
> That's great, thanks ... it would certainly be better to test option
> processing on a working platform.
>
> James