[RFC PATCH v4 00/14] coco/TSM: Host-side Arm CCA IDE setup via connect/disconnect callbacks

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue May 19 02:46:02 PDT 2026


On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 09:24:07AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 18/05/2026 13:59, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 12:21:07PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) wrote:
> > >   arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_cmds.h         |  85 +++
> > >   arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_smc.h          | 168 +++++
> > 
> > Curious, but why does this stuff have to live in the arch code? Wouldn't
> > it be better off somewhere like drivers/firmware/ or
> > include/linux/arm-rmi.h?
> 
> Good point. RMI interface is only available for arm64 (not in Arm32). That
> said, it is indeed a firmware ! ;-) interface. The APIs are closely
> integrated with the KVM Realm management. If the general consensus is
> to move them under drivers/firmware (like PSCI), we could take that
> approach.

I'd certainly prefer that as it means it's co-located with other firmware
interface code and also means that the arch maintainers don't need to
worry about changes to driver code :p

Will



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