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On 5/10/2017 7:54 PM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Implement the request_locality function. To set the locality on the
> backend we define vendor-specific TPM 1.2 and TPM 2 ordinals and send
> a command to the backend to set the locality for the next commands.

When this says "for the next commands", does that mean that the locality
is fixed for all commands until a new request_locality is sent to change it?