[PATCH 8/9] ARM: rockchip: pass device tree to TF-A

Marco Felsch m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Mon May 26 09:37:23 PDT 2025


On 25-05-26, Michael Tretter wrote:
> The upstream OP-TEE expects a device tree to be able to initialize the
> dynamic shared memory. Therefore, barebox should pass a device tree that
> contains memory nodes through the TF-A to OP-TEE.
> 
> Unfortunately, the downstream TF-A fails to start if barebox passes its
> device tree and it is not possible to detect if the loaded TF-A is able
> to handle the device tree. Add a config option to pass the device tree
> if it is possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c   | 15 ++++-----------
>  pbl/Kconfig                    |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Kconfig
> index 98dfd11c182b9fee6e3c958653ad4fa8a7d98d84..257c13bcf4846e805a7803105c71edeff92c534d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Kconfig
> @@ -141,6 +141,19 @@ config ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF
>  	  useful for debugging early startup, but for all other cases,
>  	  say y here.
>  
> +config ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF_PASS_FDT
> +	bool "Pass device tree to TF-A"
> +	depends on ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF
> +	help
> +	  Enable this option if you are using an upstream OP-TEE that uses the
> +	  device tree to initialize dynamic shared memory, which is passed
> +	  through the upstream TF-A.

Would be nice to document this within the Documentation/ dir too.

Regards,
  Marco

> +
> +	  Disable the option if you are using a downstream TF-A since it
> +	  doesn't always cope with device trees. Supposedly this happens if the
> +	  device tree is too large, for example if CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY_LIVE is
> +	  enabled.
> +
>  config ARCH_ROCKCHIP_OPTEE
>  	bool "Build rockchip OP-TEE binary into barebox"
>  	depends on ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
> index cfa6df043b34c0f36919048237c7ecf33dfe0724..12cf13717b6972c2eafc5a044ae8d0b4de029c32 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
> @@ -186,18 +186,11 @@ void __noreturn rk3588_barebox_entry(void *fdt)
>  		rk3588_lowlevel_init();
>  		rockchip_store_bootrom_iram(IOMEM(RK3588_IRAM_BASE));
>  
> -		/*
> -		 * The downstream TF-A doesn't cope with our device tree when
> -		 * CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY_LIVE is enabled, supposedly because it is
> -		 * too big for some reason. Otherwise it doesn't have any visible
> -		 * effect if we pass a device tree or not, except that the TF-A
> -		 * fills in the ethernet MAC address into the device tree.
> -		 * The upstream TF-A doesn't use the device tree at all.
> -		 *
> -		 * Pass NULL for now until we have a good reason to pass a real
> -		 * device tree.
> -		 */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF_PASS_FDT
> +		rk3588_atf_load_bl31(fdt);
> +#else
>  		rk3588_atf_load_bl31(NULL);
> +#endif
>  		/* not reached when CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF */
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/pbl/Kconfig b/pbl/Kconfig
> index 489b2001a855d62e11a2159311332b0e67f3a754..3dfc7de3e80da12a6313e84175275070274b9a5d 100644
> --- a/pbl/Kconfig
> +++ b/pbl/Kconfig
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ config PBL_CLOCKSOURCE
>  config PBL_FDT_MIN_SIZE
>  	hex
>  	default 0x0
> +	default 0x60000 if ARCH_ROCKCHIP_ATF_PASS_FDT
>  	prompt "Minimum size of the FDT blob"
>  	help
>  	  The TF-A or OP-TEE may modify the FDT or add nodes to the FDT. This
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 
> 
> 



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