linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 8/8] tpm: TPM 2.0 FIFO Interface

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Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:48:26 -0500
From:	Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@...horst.net>
CC:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	josh@...htriplett.org, christophe.ricard@...il.com,
	jason.gunthorpe@...idianresearch.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	trousers-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Will Arthur <will.c.arthur@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 8/8] tpm: TPM 2.0 FIFO Interface

On 12/12/2014 02:46 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Detect TPM 2.0 by sending idempotent TPM 2.x command. Ordinals for
> TPM 2.0 are higher than TPM 1.x commands so this should be fail-safe.
> Using STS3 is unreliable because some chips just report 0xff and not
> what the spec says.

TPM TIS 1.2 can report either 0xff or 0x00 for sts3 since that part of 
register was not defined for this version but only for a later version. 
So, unless the TIS 1.3 for TPM 2.0 is broken, it should report a bit 
_pattern_ (not plain 0x00 or 0xff) that you could apply the suggested 
mask to and check then.

     Stefan

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