On 07/30/14 18:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:03:46PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: >> Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote on 07/30/2014 11:58:52 AM:
>>> In the short term, probably skip TCPA, or advise users in documentation >>> not to enable the TPM device when running OVMF. > > Hmm but doesn't OVMF rely on all tables being packed without holes > in memory? > I remember it did, and if it still does, this breaks unless TCPA is > the last ... Ah, do you mean that the table size field in the ACPI table header of TCPA would *not* include the TCG event log that is tacked-on? Yes, that would certainly trip up the parser. It advances by looking at the table size fields in the headers. >> I guess we can do that. You can skip the TCPA for now; once the UEFI has TPM >> support, this table would then be needed. > If it doesn't work anyway, we can just tell people not to enable TPM > with OVMF. No need for hack in OVMF to skip it. Agree 100%. Thanks Laszlo
