TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD

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Date: Saturday, October 6, 2007 - 12:17 pm

I've got me a macbook and I'm figuring out how to install OpenBSD on
it (I'm going to see if I can do it without BootCamp, appearently it's
possible: http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/). One of my friends
mentioned "too bad about the evil" to me and so I started digging into
one of the evils: Trusted Computing. How do I find out if this mac has
a TPM chip? Apple is never open about this fact.

This page
reports that some macs have them and some don't. It also says that in
linux you can check `ioreg` for mentions of TPM.

What would the equivalent method in OpenBSD? Would the chip show up in
dmesg? Here's one dmesg
http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/openbsd-on-intel-mac-mini/ and I
don't see anything that looks like a TPM chip but I'm not sure what
all the devices are.

If I can't know for sure from software I plan on cracking the case and
searching for one physically anyway.

-Nick

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Messages in current thread:
TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD, Nick Guenther, (Sat Oct 6, 12:17 pm)
Re: TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD, Karl Sjödahl - dunceor, (Sat Oct 6, 12:59 pm)
Re: TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD, Nick Guenther, (Sat Oct 6, 1:22 pm)
Re: TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD, Karl Sjödahl - dunceor, (Sat Oct 6, 1:45 pm)