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Dear Passmark,
I believe that Passmark needs to add a TPM test to BIT. I was surprised to recently find TPM available on consumer motherboards. On servers, TPM had been sparsely used because of a lack of software support and applications, but now TPM use is common and TPM stress testing is required.
I found a forum posting from July 9, 2013 requesting TPM support. Unfortunately, like that user, I can't help you with ideas on how to test TPM. The tools that I have come from silicon vendors and they're awful. One runs only in the EFI shell. Another runs only on DOS, so I need to configure a USB drive as bootable DOS in order to run the test. And it needs to be a DOS version that offers scripting as the test performs only a single operation each time it's invoked.
Hopefully, tools and information will become available that can be adapted into a TPM module for BIT. TPM implementations are now mainstream and I believe more BIT users will want that functionality.
-shadow
I believe that Passmark needs to add a TPM test to BIT. I was surprised to recently find TPM available on consumer motherboards. On servers, TPM had been sparsely used because of a lack of software support and applications, but now TPM use is common and TPM stress testing is required.
I found a forum posting from July 9, 2013 requesting TPM support. Unfortunately, like that user, I can't help you with ideas on how to test TPM. The tools that I have come from silicon vendors and they're awful. One runs only in the EFI shell. Another runs only on DOS, so I need to configure a USB drive as bootable DOS in order to run the test. And it needs to be a DOS version that offers scripting as the test performs only a single operation each time it's invoked.
Hopefully, tools and information will become available that can be adapted into a TPM module for BIT. TPM implementations are now mainstream and I believe more BIT users will want that functionality.
-shadow
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