Lennart Poettering
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We need to store state persistently for the software TPM (i.e. the root key). But given that TPMs are generally used to unlock the rootfs, this storage cannot be on the rootfs. Hence let's use the ESP instead, as the next best thing, that is guaranteed to exist during early boot, given we just were booted from it. This defines automatic logic for this, but does not cause the ESP mount job to be enqueued (since typically we don't actually want that mounted), this is left for the actual services that needs to be done. Note that the mount here is set up quite differently from the one from the host: since initrds are short-lived anyway, it seemed pointless to use autofs. Moreover this uses a fixed place to mount the ESP, inspired by the /sysroot/ + /sysusr/ mount naming. All that to simplify things a bit for the consumers (which is mostly swtpm)
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