tpm1_auto_startup(9)

✨ tpm1_auto_startup(9) ✨

okay so bestie, this page is straight from the Kernel API Manual and it’s all about tpm1_auto_startup — the function that does the standard automatic TPM initialization sequence. that’s the whole name, no cap 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

tpm1_auto_startup — Perform the standard automatic TPM initialization sequence 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int tpm1_auto_startup (struct tpm_chip *chip );

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• chip — the TPM chip to use, periodt. that’s the one main-character argument right there 👑

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Returns 0 on success, < 0 in case of fatal error. so like… 0 means it ate and left no crumbs ✨, and anything < 0 is a fatal-error situation, bestie 😭

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./drivers/char/tpm/tpm1-cmd.c is literally right there, and these are the related function girlies:

• tpm1_calc_ordinal_duration(9)
• tpm1_startup(9)
• tpm1_get_random(9)
• tpm1_continue_selftest(9)
• tpm1_do_selftest(9)
• tpm1_pm_suspend(9)
• tpm1_get_pcr_allocation(9)

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mwah 💋 this cutie came from ./drivers/char/tpm, October 2026 edition, and tpm1_auto_startup(9) is signing off 🫶💖