[PATCH v5 1/3] firmware: smccc: coco: Manage arm-smccc platform device and CCA auxiliary drivers
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at kernel.org
Thu May 14 07:38:01 PDT 2026
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> writes:
> 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/
> tsm/tsm0
>
> /sys/class/tsm/tsm0
> -> ../../devices/faux/arm-smccc/arm-rsi-dev/tsm/tsm0
>
> /sys/firmware/cca/
> realm_guest
But we need the ability to autoload different TSM backend drivers based
on the support/availability of these SMCCC function-id ranges. faux
device don't support that.
-aneesh
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