From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:20:07 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] tpm2-tools: drop dependency on tpm2-abrmd In-Reply-To: <20190128211124.GJ7130@scaer> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:11:24 +0100") References: <20190125150304.16661-1-peter@korsgaard.com> <20190128211124.GJ7130@scaer> Message-ID: <87va28bhtk.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 >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > Peter, All, > On 2019-01-25 16:03 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly: >> 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 > Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > Thank you. :-) You're welcome ;) Thanks for your review. Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard