Re: [PATCH v2] aspeed: Deprecate the tacoma-bmc machine

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>]

Hello Guenter,

On 8/9/24 00:05, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:08:30AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> The tacoma-bmc machine was a board including an AST2600 SoC based BMC
>> and a witherspoon like OpenPOWER system. It was used for bring up of
>> the AST2600 SoC in labs. It can be easily replaced by the rainier-bmc
>> machine which is part of a real product offering.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
> 
> I have been using tacoma-bmc to test tcg,tpm-tis-i2c functionality
> on arm. rainier-bmc doesn't support that, and other IBM BMCs which
> do support it (bonnell, everest, system1) are not supported in qemu.
> 
> Do you have a suggested alternative ?

Could you use the ast2600-evb machine instead ? as done in
machine_aspeed.py, see routine test_arm_ast2600_evb_buildroot_tpm.

We can't add a "tpm-tis-i2c" device to the tacoma-bmc machine init
routine because a TPM backend is required.

Thanks,

C.