[RFC PATCH v0.001] PCI: Add support for tango PCIe controller

[Mason]

On 21/03/2017 12:36, Robin Murphy wrote:

> On 21/03/17 10:15, Mason wrote:
>
>> I suppose one may consider the above limitation ("Only transfers
>> within the BAR are forwarded to the host") as some form of weird
>> IOMMU? (There is, in fact, some remapping logic in the controller
>> setup which I haven't discussed so far.)
> 
> Not really. If it's the 8x128MB region thing mentioned elsewhere, that's
> far too coarse a granularity to be much use with the existing IOMMU API
> (this vaguely reminds me of a similar discussion about programmable
> interconnects ages ago). Unless it's actually got some sort of GART-type
> thing or better capable of page-granularity mappings within a
> significantly-sized region, I'd put that idea to bed.

I had a feeling my use-case was too quirky for a sane API :-)

>> Since this SoC is used for TV, the media cartels mandate some way
>> to limit where PCI bus masters can peek/poke in RAM.
> 
> FWIW, since that sounds like more of a box-ticking exercise than a real
> practical concern, I'd point out that content protection is more or less
> the poster child for TrustZone, and your TZASC should help tick that box
> regardless.

Interesting. In fact, our Linux runs as the non-secure OS,
and we do have a custom "secure" OS running in parallel.

My knowledge of TZ is limited to "call this SMC to offline
that CPU", but our local TZ expert is CCed :-)

TZASC = TrustZone Address Space Controller

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0431c/CHDBBGIC.html

Is there a TZASC embedded in every ARM core?
We're using Cortex-A9 MPCore r3p0 + PL310 r3p2

Regards.