Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: improve tpm_tis send() performance by ignoring burstcount

From: Ken Goldman
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 18:02:33 EST


On 8/13/2017 7:53 PM, msuchanek wrote:
About 500 out of 700 mainboards sold today has a PS/2 port which is
probably due to prevalence of legacy devices and usbhid limitations.

Similarily many boards have serial and parallel hardware ports.

In all diagrams detailed enough to show these ports I have seen them
attached to the LPC bus.

Do these boards have a TPM? Remember that the TPM requires special LPC bus cycles.

Even if so, the TPM LPC bus wait states are less than a usec. My thought is that it's unlikely that any device (serial port, mouse, keyboard, printer) will be adversely affected.