[tpmdd-devel] Intel NUC and fTPM issue on 4.9.2

[Winkler, Tomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarkko Sakkinen [mailto:jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 12:48
> To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com>
> Cc: Sakkinen, Jarkko <jarkko.sakkinen at intel.com>; tpmdd-
> devel at lists.sourceforge.net; davide.guerri at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] Intel NUC and fTPM issue on 4.9.2
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:01:25PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > I would rather review a patch with proper commit message than just
> > > pick from an email thread in all cases with a proper explanation
> > > what the patch does and why it is the right way to fix the issue.
> >
> > Of course, but I am waiting for Davide to say the approach even works
> > ..
> >
> > Jason
> 
> I'm not sure what would be a good function name but maybe something that
> would state that this is not status quo but workaround for a bug. Since I do not
> have any better suggestion keep the current name if nothing comes up.
> 
> Probably a dev_err message would make sense here to state in klog that
> something is wrong in the BIOS.
> 
> Since there are multiple people complaining about the issue I will take this
> workaround even if the BIOS is fixed.
> 
> /Jarkko


There is finally a BIOS fix 
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26698/NUCs-BIOS-Update-KYSKLi70-86A- 
0045 and newer

Thanks
Tomas

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