On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 16:17 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Sun, 2018-12-30 at 14:22 +0100, Michael Niewöhner wrote: > > > > difference is that on a cold boot, the TPM takes longer to initialize. > > > > Well, as I said. Waiting for 10, 20 or even 60 seconds in the boot manager > > does > > not solve the problem. So the problem is NOT that the TPM takes longer to > > initialize. Even adding a delay of 20 seconds before TPM init does not solve > > that while that should be more than enough time. > > The purpose of commenting out the TPM2 selftest was to minimize the > TPM initialization delay, so that the TPM is ready before IMA. After > James' patch that wasn't needed anymore. > > Looking back at this thread, I see you're using systemd-boot, not > grub2. When you commented out the systemd-boot timeout, IMA found the > TPM. The question is why isn't the TPM ready with the timeout before > IMA (like above)? Has systemd-boot done the selftest? I am not sure wether systemd-boot touches TPM at all but I get the same behaviour with syslinux-efi. > > Mimi >
