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5 This document describes the firmware Trusted Platform Module (fTPM)
11 This driver is a shim for firmware implemented in ARM's TrustZone
12 environment. The driver allows programs to interact with the TPM in the same
13 way they would interact with a hardware TPM.
18 The driver acts as a thin layer that passes commands to and from a TPM
19 implemented in firmware. The driver itself doesn't contain much logic and is
20 used more like a dumb pipe between firmware and kernel/userspace.
22 The firmware itself is based on the following paper:
23 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ftpm1.pdf
25 When the driver is loaded it will expose ``/dev/tpmX`` character devices to
26 userspace which will enable userspace to communicate with the firmware TPM