Re: [tboot-devel] tpm_unit_test_before_senter() ?

[Jun K. <jun...@gm...>]

On 2/15/08, Cihula, Joseph <jos...@in...> wrote:
> On Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:30 AM, Jun Koi wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I am enjoying reading the tboot source code. I found that one of the
>  > first steps of tboot is to check some TPM functions. However, I dont
>  > understand the idea behind some tests, like in the function
>  > tpm_unit_test_before_senter().
>  >
>  > Joseph, could you explain a bit about the motivation of those tests?
>
>
> The various test routines were used to validate that the TPM code was
>  working correctly.

Is it necessary to do the test? Or we can suppose that if machine
supports SINIT insn, TPM would work flawlessly?

Or did you see some malfunction TPM already?

Thanks,
Jun