From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:07:29 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] tpm2-tools: drop dependency on tpm2-abrmd In-Reply-To: <20190125150304.16661-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:03:04 +0100") References: <20190125150304.16661-1-peter@korsgaard.com> Message-ID: <877een2k4e.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard writes: > tpm2-tools is commonly used with the resource manager, tpm2-abrmd - But it > CAN be used without, E.G. by setting the TPM2TOOLS_TCTI_NAME environment > variable to communicate directly with the kernel driver: > export TPM2TOOLS_TCTI_NAME=device > Either directly with the TPM device (/dev/tpmN) or through the in-kernel > resource manager provided by Linux kernel since 4.12 (/dev/tpmrmN) > For some use cases (E.G. initramfs) it makes sense to use tpm2-tools > without abrmd, so remove the tpm2-abrmd select, and instead a note in the > help text that it may be needed. > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard > --- > Changes since v2: > - Drop the imply and instead add a comment as suggested by Yann and Arnout Committed to 2018.11.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard