Re: [tpmdd-devel] TPM chip prevents machine from suspending

From: Eric Paris
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 15:44:14 EST


On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:03 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:

> - send a command to the TPM upon resume and if TPM response returns
> with error code 38 set a flag and don't send TPM_SaveState() upon the
> next suspend; log this case; the TPM becomes unusable; machine will
> suspend a 2nd time

I assume there is no reasonable way to detect this particular piece of
broken BIOS/hardware? If not I think this sounds like the best option
to me. If the TPM doesn't work after resume not much we can do other
than accept it doesn't work and move along.....

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