[PATCH v8 2/3] dt-bindings: mtd: Add a property to declare secure regions in NAND chips

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue Mar 23 22:29:55 GMT 2021


On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:09:29 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On a typical end product, a vendor may choose to secure some regions in
> the NAND memory which are supposed to stay intact between FW upgrades.
> The access to those regions will be blocked by a secure element like
> Trustzone. So the normal world software like Linux kernel should not
> touch these regions (including reading).
> 
> So let's add a property for declaring such secure regions so that the
> drivers can skip touching them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand-controller.yaml | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>



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