From: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ashley Lai <adlai@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, adlai@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] drivers/char/tpm: Add new device driver to support IBM vTPM
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:46:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905154644.GA14925@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346816407.2257.37.camel@pasglop>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:40:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:42 -0500, Kent Yoder wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:17:43PM -0500, Ashley Lai wrote:
> > > This patch adds a new device driver to support IBM virtual TPM
> > > (vTPM) for PPC64. IBM vTPM is supported through the adjunct
> > > partition with firmware release 740 or higher. With vTPM
> > > support, each lpar is able to have its own vTPM without the
> > > physical TPM hardware.
> > >
> > > This driver provides TPM functionalities by communicating with
> > > the vTPM adjunct partition through Hypervisor calls (Hcalls)
> > > and Command/Response Queue (CRQ) commands.
> >
> > Thanks Ashley, I'll include this in my next pull request to James.
>
> Oh ? I was about to put it in the powerpc tree ... But yeah, I notice
> there's a change to tpm.h so it probably should be at least acked by the
> TPM folks. As for the subsequent patches, they are powerpc specific so I
> can add them, I don't think there's a strict dependency, is there ?
James did accept my pull request, so these are already in
security-next...
Kent
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ashley Lai <adlai@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adlai@us.ibm.com,
rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] drivers/char/tpm: Add new device driver to support IBM vTPM
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:46:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905154644.GA14925@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346816407.2257.37.camel@pasglop>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:40:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:42 -0500, Kent Yoder wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:17:43PM -0500, Ashley Lai wrote:
> > > This patch adds a new device driver to support IBM virtual TPM
> > > (vTPM) for PPC64. IBM vTPM is supported through the adjunct
> > > partition with firmware release 740 or higher. With vTPM
> > > support, each lpar is able to have its own vTPM without the
> > > physical TPM hardware.
> > >
> > > This driver provides TPM functionalities by communicating with
> > > the vTPM adjunct partition through Hypervisor calls (Hcalls)
> > > and Command/Response Queue (CRQ) commands.
> >
> > Thanks Ashley, I'll include this in my next pull request to James.
>
> Oh ? I was about to put it in the powerpc tree ... But yeah, I notice
> there's a change to tpm.h so it probably should be at least acked by the
> TPM folks. As for the subsequent patches, they are powerpc specific so I
> can add them, I don't think there's a strict dependency, is there ?
James did accept my pull request, so these are already in
security-next...
Kent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-14 23:23 [PATCH V3 0/3] tpm: Add new vTPM device driver for PPC64 Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:23 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:34 ` [PATCH V3 1/3] drivers/char/tpm: Add new device driver to support IBM vTPM Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:34 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-22 21:17 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-22 21:17 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-22 21:42 ` Kent Yoder
2012-08-22 21:42 ` Kent Yoder
2012-09-05 3:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-05 3:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-05 15:46 ` Kent Yoder [this message]
2012-09-05 15:46 ` Kent Yoder
2012-09-05 21:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-05 21:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-09-07 17:38 ` Kent Yoder
2012-09-07 17:38 ` Kent Yoder
2012-09-12 3:16 ` James Morris
2012-09-12 3:16 ` James Morris
2012-09-05 17:25 ` Ashley Lai
2012-09-05 17:25 ` Ashley Lai
2012-09-12 17:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] drivers/char/tpm: remove tasklet and cleanup Ashley Lai
2012-09-12 17:49 ` Ashley Lai
2012-09-24 2:26 ` James Morris
2012-09-24 2:26 ` James Morris
2012-09-24 14:10 ` key
2012-09-24 14:10 ` key
2012-09-24 15:48 ` key
2012-09-24 15:48 ` key
2012-09-26 13:55 ` key
2012-09-26 13:55 ` key
2012-09-27 14:46 ` Ashley Lai
2012-09-27 14:46 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:34 ` [PATCH V3 2/3] PPC64: Add support for instantiating SML from Open Firmware Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:34 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:35 ` [PATCH V3 3/3] drivers/char/tpm: Add securityfs support for event log Ashley Lai
2012-08-14 23:35 ` Ashley Lai
2012-08-15 19:59 ` [PATCH V3 0/3] tpm: Add new vTPM device driver for PPC64 Kent Yoder
2012-08-15 19:59 ` Kent Yoder
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