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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V8 01/14] Support for TPM command line
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To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: chrisw@redhat.com, anbang.ruan@cs.ox.ac.uk, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, rrelyea@redhat.com, alevy@redhat.com, andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at, serge@hallyn.com

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:01:32PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 01:14 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:35:52AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> >>This patch adds support for TPM command line options.
> >>The command line supported here (considering the libtpms based
> >>backend) are
> >>
> >>./qemu-... -tpm builtin,path=<path to blockstorage file>
> >>
> >>and
> >>
> >>./qemu-... -tpmdev builtin,path=<path to blockstorage file>,id=<id>
> >>            -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=<id>
> >do we really need both?
> I had chatted with Anthony about this. I am following the existing
> pattern is use for example for -netdev / -net.

Must be some kind of misunderstanding.
Please do not add multiple ways to do one thing.
We only support -net for legacy reasons.

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