Re: [tboot-devel] tpm_unit_test_before_senter() ?

[Cihula, J. <jos...@in...>]

On Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:29 PM, Jun Koi wrote:
> 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?

The tests were to exercise the TPM code in tpm.c.  They are currently
#ifdef'ed out and so don't get run at all.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jun