On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch implements a driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs in a > system. > > The driver implements a device /dev/vtpmx that is used to created > a client device pair /dev/tpmX (e.g., /dev/tpm10) and a server side that > is accessed using a file descriptor returned by an ioctl. > The device /dev/tpmX is the usual TPM device created by the core TPM > driver. Applications or kernel subsystems can send TPM commands to it > and the corresponding server-side file descriptor receives these > commands and delivers them to an emulated TPM. Nifty! Is anyone considering writing a modification or replacement of trousers that creates claims the real tpm and exposes a vtpm that handles multiplexing internally? Does the vtpm driver intelligently support multiple simultaneous clients? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
