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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] tpm: fix PS/2 devices not working on Braswell systems due CLKRUN enabled
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Note I'm just reading along here, but I'm wondering if both the TPM
> and now also some PS/2 controllers need CLK_RUN to be disabled,
> why don't we just disable it once permanently and be done with it?
>
> It seems that on machines with a PS/2 controller connected to
> the LPC bus the BIOS is already doing this, so I've a feeling that
> it not being done on devices with a TPM is a bug in the firmware
> there and we should just disable it everywhere (and probably
> find a better place then the TPM driver to do the disabling).
>
> Note this is just an observation, I could be completely wrong here,
> but I've a feeling that just disabling CLKRUN all together is the
> right thing to do and that seems like an easier fix to me.

Agreed. Thanks for noting this. Right now, I would just apply TPM
driver specific fixes.

/Jarkko

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