From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDSIu-0006EK-43 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:05:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDSIp-00028b-1f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:05:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDSIo-00028U-SB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 04:05:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:05:20 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20160616080520.GA2249@work-vm> References: <201601201532.u0KFW2q2019737@d03av03.boulder.ibm.com> <20160120154657.GF13215@redhat.com> <569FADC7.7060301@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160120162220.GH13215@redhat.com> <20160121113632.GC2446@work-vm> <57FA3A002D66E049AA7792D931B894C7060F5494@MOKSCY3MSGUSRGB.ITServices.sbc.com> <945CA011AD5F084CBEA3E851C0AB28894B8C3A14@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> <575E92DB.3080904@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160615193019.GB7300@work-vm> <5761C092.5070702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5761C092.5070702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/4] Provide support for the CUSE TPM List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Berger Cc: Stefan Berger , "mst@redhat.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "SERBAN, CRISTINA" , "Xu, Quan" , "silviu.vlasceanu@gmail.com" , "hagen.lauer@huawei.com" , "SHIH, CHING C" * Stefan Berger (stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > On 06/15/2016 03:30 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > So what was the multi-instance vTPM proxy driver patch set about? > > That's for containers. Why have the two mechanisms? Can you explain how the multi-instance proxy works; my brief reading when I saw your patch series seemed to suggest it could be used instead of CUSE for the non-container case. Dave P.S. I've removed Jeff from the cc because I got a bounce from his AT&T address saying 'restricted/not authorized' > > Stefan > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK