Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v8 6/8] tpm: TPM 2.0 baseline support

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On 12/02/2014 05:31 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:


+
+/**
+ * tpm2_startup() - send startup command to the TPM chip
+ * @chip:		TPM chip to use.
+ * @startup_type	startup type. The value is either
+ *			TPM_SU_CLEAR or TPM_SU_STATE.
+ *
+ * 0 is returned when the operation is successful. If a negative number is
+ * returned it remarks a POSIX error code. If a positive number is returned
+ * it remarks a TPM error.
+ */
+int tpm2_startup(struct tpm_chip *chip, __be16 startup_type)
+{
+	struct tpm2_cmd cmd;
+
+	cmd.header.in = tpm2_startup_header;
+
+	cmd.params.startup_in.startup_type = startup_type;
+	return tpm_transmit_cmd(chip, &cmd, sizeof(cmd),
+				"attempting to start the TPM");
+}

I suppose you need to send this command because your firmware does not do it ?Following TPM1.2 I guess the BIOS / UEFI should send this instead and sending it later would actually be wrong. Hm, I don't find from where you are calling this... do you need it ? Can you remove it?

   Stefan


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