[PATCH v5 1/3] firmware: smccc: coco: Manage arm-smccc platform device and CCA auxiliary drivers

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 02:19:19PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 12:04:13PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > > > On 14/05/2026 10:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) wrote:
> > > > > Make the SMCCC driver responsible for registering the arm-smccc platform
> > > > > device and after confirming the relevant SMCCC function IDs, create
> > > > > the arm_cca_guest auxiliary device.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > There are a few changes squashed in to this patch. Please could we
> > > > split the patch in the following order ?
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Add platform device for arm-smccc
> > > 
> > > Do not make any more "fake" platform devices please.
> > > 
> > > > 2. Move TRNG to Auxilliary Device - (Even though it is a later patch, move
> > > > it before the RSI changes)
> > > 
> > > No, move it to the faux api please.
> > 
> > So should we end up with:
> > 
> >   /sys/devices/faux/arm-smccc/
> >     smccc_trng/
> >     arm-rsi-dev/
> 
> What types are these child devices?  Also faux ones?

They'd also be faux devices with this structure (in practice they are
firmware interfaces that may be backed by some hardware like in the TRNG
case, though not directly accessible to Linux).

-- 
Catalin