[TF-A] Proposal: TF-A to adopt hand-off blocks (HOBs) for information passing between boot stages

[Grant Likely]

On 29/03/2021 08:42, Simon Glass wrote:
 > Hi Raghu,
 >
 > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 at 03:59, <raghu.ncstate at icloud.com> wrote:
 >
 >> Julius, Simon,
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> It appears there are opinions you carry around UUID being complicated,
 >> bloated, code being an eyesore, parsing these lists early with
MMU/Caches
 >> disabled, calculating checksums etc. While there is certainly a LOT of
 >> truth to those statements, these concerns need to be put into
context and
 >> may not necessarily apply to all platforms running TF-A. Standardization
 >> and interoperability may be valued more on some platforms and some
of the
 >> bloat and performance issues may be worth those tradeoffs. Some of these
 >> concerns may not even apply on powerful CPU’s and SoC’s with lots of
 >> memory. Also a quick grep for “uuid” in the TF-A repository shows that
 >> there is significant use of UUID’s for FIP, some SMC’s, secure
partitions
 >> etc so use of UUID is not something new to TF-A.
 >>
 >
 > Fair enough. I hope, though, that if we can agree on a simple
 > implementation like bloblist, then it becomes the standard and we can
move
 > away from the problems you mention with UUIDs.

Ummm... I don't follow. How are UUIDs either complex or bloated? A UUIDs
is simply a 128 bit number that is matched using a fixed length compare.

What I like about the UUID scheme is it has collision avoidance built
in, and it is adopted across multiple projects.

g.
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