From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
"Amarnath Valluri" <amarnath.valluri@intel.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: patrick.ohly@intel.com, berrange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] tpm: Added support for TPM emulator
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 12:58:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38a2aa2e-6270-63af-3dec-bd666d56780d@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+F1C+gLTVpZZeKtxuLFUgs6nJ0KbgnJp4VdAuuM4JK2RbYMA@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/02/2017 12:05 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:53 PM Amarnath Valluri
> <amarnath.valluri@intel.com <mailto:amarnath.valluri@intel.com>> wrote:
>
> This change introduces a new TPM backend driver that can
> communicate with
> swtpm(software TPM emulator) using unix domain socket interface.
>
> Swtpm uses two unix sockets, one for plain TPM commands and
> responses, and one
> for out-of-band control messages.
>
>
> Let's not forget to mention the external protocol this backend rely on:
> https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/wiki/Control-Channel-Specification
>
> The protocol documentation is quite limited.
>
> (I still question the need to rely on a public protocol, and a
> seperate helper process project. If we had a qemu-swtpm, we could more
> easily evolve the protocol in the future)
And who is going to implement that qemu-swtpm? Obviously this discussion
doesn't contribute to progress if nobody is doing that in the end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-02 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-02 11:52 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] Provide support for the software TPM emulator Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/8] tpm-backend: Remove unneeded member variable from backend class Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 11:59 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/8] tpm-backend: Move thread handling inside TPMBackend Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 12:10 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/8] tpm-backend: Initialize and free data members in it's own methods Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 12:17 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/8] tpm-backend: Made few interface methods optional Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 12:29 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-04 8:39 ` Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-04 11:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 " Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/8] tmp backend: Add new api to read backend TpmInfo Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 13:35 ` Eric Blake
2017-05-04 9:05 ` Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-04 11:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 " Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/8] tpm-backend: Move realloc_buffer() implementation to base class Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 15:54 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-04 9:25 ` Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-04 9:32 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-04 11:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/8] tpm-backend: Move realloc_buffer() implementation to tpm-tis model Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-06 12:27 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/8] tpm-passthrough: move reusable code to utils Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 15:54 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 11:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] tpm: Added support for TPM emulator Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-02 16:05 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 16:32 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-02 16:58 ` Stefan Berger [this message]
2017-05-02 17:09 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 17:19 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-02 18:25 ` Patrick Ohly
2017-05-02 18:50 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-02 19:35 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-03 8:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-05-03 11:17 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-05-03 11:24 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-03 11:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-05-03 11:37 ` Marc-André Lureau
2017-05-03 14:42 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-04 9:44 ` Patrick Ohly
2017-05-04 11:08 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-02 12:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] Provide support for the software " no-reply
2017-05-04 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] tpm: Added support for " Amarnath Valluri
2017-05-04 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] Provide support for the software " Stefan Berger
2017-05-05 6:52 ` Amarnath Valluri
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