[systemd-devel] Permanently remove services

[Morten Bo Johansen]

On 2024-01-19 Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:

> In general I've learned to not quite trust what the firmware shows... we've
> had a batch of Skylake-or-so desktops that *did* have a CPU-integrated fTPM
> but it wasn't even mentioned until we did a BIOS update, even though CPU
> spec said it should be present.
>
> However, your CPU is from Haswell era and according to the spec sheet it
> definitely seems to lack Intel's PTT "built-in TPM 2.0" feature (it has the
> older IPT but that's a different thing, not a TPM equivalent), so that
> seems correct. If I understand correctly, the only option for that CPU
> would be a discrete TPM chip, and if the manufacturer had bothered to
> include one, it ought to be showing up in the BIOS settings.
>
> On the other hand, you said you have a /dev/tpm0... I'm somewhat curious
> about whether there are any mentions 'tpm' or 'tis' or something like that
> in your `dmesg`?

~/ % dmesg | grep -i tpm

[    0.275738] tpm_tis 00:05: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x0, rev-id 78)
[   26.180565] systemd[1]: systemd 255.2-3-arch running in system mode (+PAM +AUDIT -SELINUX -APPARMOR -IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 +PWQUALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +TPM2 +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD +BPF_FRAMEWORK +XKBCOMMON +UTMP -SYSVINIT default-hierarchy=unified)
[   26.852953] systemd[1]: Listening on TPM2 PCR Extension (Varlink).
[   26.891210] systemd[1]: Starting TPM2 PCR Machine ID Measurement...

~/ % dmesg | grep -i tis

[    0.275738] tpm_tis 00:05: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x0, rev-id 78)


> A virtual machine won't be able to see the real TPM either way (or any
> other real hardware; it's kinda what makes it a virtual machine). All it
> would see is a vTPM provided by the VM host software.

Okay.

I shall try to upgrade the bios to the latest version and see
if something shows up.

Thanks,
Morten