Re: [PATCH] Upgrade vtpmd to berlios version 0.7.4

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 18:52 +0100, Matthew Fioravante wrote:
> What will follow soon are updates to vtpmd, vtpm_manager, xm, xl,
> mini-os, and new vtpm and vtpm manager stub domains.

No need to update xm any more, it is deprecated in 4.2.

Who or what is/are Berlios? Are they (actively) maintaining the vTPM?

Perhaps we should consider making this stuff an external dependency
rather than importing it into our code base? This could be done either
as a simple dependency (i.e. require vtpm to be installed before
building) or as a repo cloned during build (like how we handle qemu and
seabios etc).

> The first patch I'd like to submit upgrades vtpmd to version 0.7.4
> 
> This patch does the following:
> -add checks to configure to check for cmake (required by berlios 0.7.4)

Is the model with cmake that it is required on all the end systems
building the project (like make), or is it only needed on the project
maintainer's system (like autoconf/make)?

> -removes all of the 0.5.1 patches
> -adds a single patch for 0.7.4
> -cleans up the makefile, should work for parallel make (avoiding
> version.h discussion from august 2012)
> -builds vtpmd to use berlios 0.7.4
> -Remoed the tpm_emualtor build option. berlios itself provides a kernel
> module if you want to use it in dom0 to emulate the physical tpm.

Is there going to be an associated documentation update/refresh?

> 
> Signed of by: Matthew Fioravante matthew.fioravante@jhuapl.edu

Ian.