Re: TPM emulator driver status

[David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Stefan Berger <stefanb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I wrote a driver for support of (v)TPM for containers. It has ioctl's for
> creating and deleting of pairs of devices where one device is used by clients
> and the other end is used by a TPM emulator to listen for commands. The client
> device can be 'moved' in the container, meaning a device node with the same
> major/minor numbers is created inside a container. Any number of such device
> pairs can be create. Does this driver sound like it would provide more
> functionality than yours and would it address your use case as well?

Maybe.  Is it accessible through the /dev/tpm<N> just like a h/w tpm?  And can
it be accessed by in-kernel services that use a tpm?

David

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