Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] RFC: in-kernel resource manager

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:36:42PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:

> I'm seriously pissed of with trousers and will port the trousers based
> TPM1.2 RSA key patches I've done to whatever direct connect API you
> come up with (just send me a link to the git tree or package or
> whatever), so this should generate some use experience for 1.2, like
> whether we actually need a RM without trousers and also what the safety
> issues might be.  My main laptop is now TPM2, but I have a backup one
> that's TPM1.2 and also has all the TPM key stuff as well.

I would like to add basic 1.2 support to Jarkko's RM. I'm not sure if
my 5mth old will ever let me..

If we do that we write a simple broker as I described that works on
both 1.2 and 2.0 and trousers can go away.

Jason