[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] tpm: Add casts for proper compilation
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sun Nov 4 01:26:24 CET 2012
Dear Simon,
In message <CAPnjgZ0RV991pa7MeVxr463g-TkKa+rzF8Gn7R0_ZbZnOWOsZg at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > I recommend to remove the whole TPM code instead.
>
> It is actually used in the x86 Chromebook, but the patch to enable it
> never made it to mainline. There was quite a bit of push-back on the
> x86 side at the time and the person working on it finally had enough
> :-(
>
> I have recently taken this up again to see if we can get x86 into a
> better state for newer Intel chips and the latest x86 Chromebooks. The
> patch to enable the TPM there is:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/190813/
I don;t see how this uses it in any way in U-Boot. It still would not
even compile most of the code, right?
> I accept that it has sat there for a while without a board config to
> use it. But I would very much like to keep this code and see no sense
> in removing it now that it is actually in use.
Feel free to re-add it when there are any real users.
I've posted a removal patch.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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