[PATCH v7 1/5] ARM: add basic support for Trusted Foundations

[Michal Simek]

On 10/10/2013 01:45 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/04/2013 06:37 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>>> Trusted Foundations is a TrustZone-based secure monitor for ARM that
>>> can be invoked using the same SMC-based API on all supported
>>> platforms. This patch adds initial basic support for Trusted
>>> Foundations using the ARM firmware API. Current features are limited
>>> to the ability to boot secondary processors.
>>>
>>> Note: The API followed by Trusted Foundations does *not* follow the SMC
>>> calling conventions. It has nothing to do with PSCI neither and is only
>>> relevant to devices that use Trusted Foundations (like most Tegra-based
>>> retail devices).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../arm/firmware/tl,trusted-foundations.txt        | 17 +++++
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt        |  1 +
>>>  arch/arm/Kconfig                                   |  2 +
>>>  arch/arm/Makefile                                  |  1 +
>>>  arch/arm/firmware/Kconfig                          | 28 ++++++++
>>>  arch/arm/firmware/Makefile                         |  1 +
>>>  arch/arm/firmware/trusted_foundations.c            | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  arch/arm/include/asm/trusted_foundations.h         | 64 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>  8 files changed, 191 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/firmware/tl,trusted-foundations.txt
>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/firmware/Kconfig
>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/firmware/Makefile
>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/firmware/trusted_foundations.c
>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/trusted_foundations.h
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/firmware/tl,trusted-foundations.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/firmware/tl,trusted-foundations.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..3954bbd
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/firmware/tl,trusted-foundations.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
>>> +Trusted Foundations
>>> +
>>> +Boards that use the Trusted Foundations secure monitor can signal its
>>> +presence by declaring a node compatible with "tl,trusted-foundations"
>>> +under the root node.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible : "tl,trusted-foundations"
>>> +- version-major : major version number of Trusted Foundations firmware
>>> +- version-minor: minor version number of Trusted Foundations firmware
>>> +
>>> +Example:
>>> +     firmware {
>>> +             compatible = "tl,trusted-foundations";
>>> +             version-major = <2>;
>>> +             version-minor = <8>;
>>> +     };
>>
>> This is just another example how to add sw description to dts.
>> I have briefly looked at tegra20.dtsi and there are IPs like timer, intc, etc
>> which are in the DTS without any bus.
>>
>> Add this firmware node to the root is just +1 case to this mess
>> but IMHO will be good to have specific DT part which will be used for
>> this sw setting which are coming to DTS all the time.
>>
>> Grant, Rob: Where is the proper location for these type of description?
> 
> Usually we've been using the /firmware hierarchy for these kind of things.
> 
> Chrome OS uses /firmware/chromeos for some of the information passing
> from FW to the OS.
> 
> You might want a separate node under /firmware for this, since this is
> "just" the secure runtime portion of things, there might be need to
> add things for/from the bootloader too.

Is this documented somewhere? I mean that firmware node should be used for this.

Thanks,
Michal

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