Following up the question raised yesterday during the TF-A Tech Forum with regards to any modification needed on the Linux Kernel to run the test case that I was presenting (Measured Boot + fTPM service), I double checked today and I ran some tests on system and I can confirm that the test case works with the mainline Linux Kernel, with no modification other than enabling the driver on the DTB.

* tpm_ftpm_tee.ko: Module to communicate with a firmware TPM through a char device. This also includes the reference implementation used on the test case.

In order to use the fTPM service, the test case makes use of IBM's TPM 2.0 TSS, a user space TSS for TPM 2.0 that uses services provided by the fTPM.

A) The test case is only meant to test the ability of the Measured Boot Driver and a TPM 2.0 compliant device to interact with each other. As such, we are not providing an fTPM meant to be used on a production environment. Instead, we are using an existing reference implementation to which we added support for Measured Boot to fulfil our needs for the test and use it as a functional example. The implementation details on how to interact with a particular TPM device (either firmware or discrete) can differ from the ones used on the test case as those details can be platform dependent. For example, we use an OPTEE TA fTPM on this example, but other platforms might use a discrete TPM or an fTPM running on a different Trusted OS.

B) As stated on the presentation, we are undergoing internal review of the contributions done for the fTPM service to make it compatible with Measured Boot. Once the review is completed and the changes merged into the TPM repo mainline, we will update the TF-A documentation with instructions on how to download and build all the components to run the tests manually.