From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41730 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Psh2J-00078p-DN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:39:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Psgvh-0007Ey-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:32:50 -0500 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:45773) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Psgvh-0007Ej-0f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:32:49 -0500 Received: from d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (d01relay05.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.237]) by e9.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p1OJ6v5S024532 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:06:57 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p1OJWkAF227686 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:32:46 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p1OJS1iN022208 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:32:46 -0300 Message-ID: <4D669915.9060205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:44:53 -0500 From: Stefan Berger MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Add TPM 1.2 device interface References: <1298043215-10083-1-git-send-email-andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at> <1298043215-10083-2-git-send-email-andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at> <4D5EA02D.4060801@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4D66798F.7060404@iaik.tugraz.at> In-Reply-To: <4D66798F.7060404@iaik.tugraz.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andreas Niederl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 02/24/2011 10:30 AM, Andreas Niederl wrote: > On 02/18/2011 05:37 PM, Stefan Berger wrote: > [...] >> I have a tpm_tis.c with major changes in it getting rid of the polling, >> closer to specs that passes a test suite and a registerable backend as >> well that has several more interface functions, due to support for >> snapshotting etc. Unfortunately it doesn't make much sense for me to >> post it since the backend is based on a library that's currently in the >> Fedora review process and nobody else could build or test it -- unless >> there really was interest in reviewing at least some part of it. >> >> It would certainly be desirable if your backend and mine could be >> accommodate. > I am looking for a rather soon integration of this functionality (at > least with my host passthrough backend) into the main project. > > We could try to integrate your improved device emulation frontend along > with the infrastructure for using different backends while your library > is still being reviewed. > I would post my (rather simple) direct host passthrough backend along > with it, so testing can be done. > > That way, we would have the better part of the TPM emulation framework > available in Qemu and you could post your library-based backend as soon > as it has finished its review. I will post my patches soon. Stefan > > Andreas >