[SeaBIOS] [PATCH V5 0/9] Add TPM support to SeaBIOS

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu Jul 7 00:58:05 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:31:58PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> The following set of patches add TPM and Trusted Computing support to SeaBIOS.
> In particular the patches add:
> 
> - a TPM driver for the Qemu's TPM TIS emulation (not yet in Qemu git)
> - ACPI support for the TPM device (SSDT table)
> - ACPI support for measurement logging (TCPA table)
> - Support for initialzation of the TPM
> - Support for the TCG BIOS extensions (1ah handler [ah = 0xbb])
>   (used by trusted grub; http://trousers.sourceforge.net/grub.html)
> - Static Root of Trusted for Measurement (SRTM) support
> - Support for S3 resume (sends command to TPM upon resume)
> - TPM-specific menu for controlling aspects of the TPM
> - [An optional test suite for the TIS interface]
> 
> All implementations necessarily follow specifications.
...

Thanks Stefan.

Where does this stand with respect to QEmu integration?

BTW, I don't think patch 7 or 9 really make sense to integrate in the
official version of SeaBIOS.  Also, in patch 8, I'd prefer to see all
new fw_cfg entries use the "romfile" mechanism.

-Kevin



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