[ltp] tpm chip

Gijs Hillenius linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:59:09 +0100


>>>>> Cougar  writes:

     > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Gijs Hillenius wrote:

    >> Anyway, no straigt sailing yet...
    >> 
    >> modprobe tpm.ko
    >> 
    >> tpm: Atmel TPM version 1.1.0.6 tpm: StartUp failed tpm:
    >> PhysicalPresence failed

     > Is this chip enabled in BIOS?

    >> rmmod tpm
    >> 
    >> Badness in remove_proc_entry at fs/proc/generic.c:688
    >> [<c01880aa>] remove_proc_entry+0x10a/0x150 [<f084612c>]
    >> tpm_proc_cleanup+0x80/0x84 [tpm] [<f0846158>]
    >> cleanup_tpm+0x8/0x24 [tpm] [<c0130e6b>]
    >> sys_delete_module+0x12b/0x180 [<c014852b>]
    >> do_munmap+0x15b/0x1b0 [<c010603b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

I contacted the author of the module Van Doorn. The message 'PhysicalPresence
failed' can be ignored, he writes. This is a bring up code for
hardware with no tcg bios support.  

Anyway, the thing is there, and the module works.

there is output: cat /proc/tpm/pcrs :-)






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