Bug#809815: [feature request] linux-image-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp: tpm random module for linux LDOMs
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 13:48 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 4.3.3-2
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Can you please enable CONFIG_TCG_TPM (TPM security chip) and
>> CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_TPM linux kernel config options (as modules), to
>> enable hardware RNG device for use in LDOM (containers) of debian
>> sparc64.
>>
>> Right now, there's no hardware RNG provider is available :
> [...]
>
> Both of those are generic TPM code and won't help you without a driver
> for the specific TPM that's present in LDOMs.
>
> I can't find any hint in the kernel source of which driver is needed
> for an LDOM, even in the UEK patched source, so perhaps it is out-of-
> tree?
Ben, well,
I'm going to build a generic (vanilla) kernel with this CONFIGs and
test how it would work. Going to report back soon. Thanks.
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