Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] tpm: Added support for TPM emulator

From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
	"Amarnath Valluri" <amarnath.valluri@intel.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] tpm: Added support for TPM emulator
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 20:25:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493749518.4241.225.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ee48b85-0404-a810-95b5-4b19b197373e@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 13:19 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 05/02/2017 01:09 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:59 PM Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> And who is going to implement that qemu-swtpm? Obviously this discussion
> >> doesn't contribute to progress if nobody is doing that in the end.
> >>
> > The same persons who try to push for that emulated TPM code. The easiest
> > approach would be to copy/adapt the swtpm code in qemu, if the licence is
> > compatible. I can help with that if there is a consensus it's a better
> > approach.
> 
> 
> It's a matter of time and at least I don't have time for that.

Neither do I, and nor (I believe) does Amarnath. The approach with using
the existing swtpm project seemed attractive to us exactly because it
avoids having to write and maintain more than just the glue code between
the two projects.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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