Dear Simon,

In message <CAPnjgZ0JLarq6r=she+cfbjkyuf6hrggp4br9u_asug14mz...@mail.gmail.com> 
you wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote:
> > The TPM code was added more than a year or 4 releases ago.  This was
> > done under the proposition that board support that would actually use
> > such code would be added soon.  However, nothing happened since.  The
> > code has no users in mainline, and does not even get build for any
> > configuration, so we cannot even tell if it compiles at all.
> >
> > Remove the unused code.  In in some far future actual users show up,
> > it can be re-added easily.
> 
> I think you may have missed the pending patches which make use of
> this. it is important functionality for the Chromebooks (secure boot).

No, I have not missed these.  But all the patch does is set
CONFIG_GENERIC_LPC_TPM - there is still not a single user defining
CONFIG_CMD_TPM, so what does this help?  We still have tons of dead
code around.  Dump it!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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