[PATCH v2 0/6] introduce Arm FF-A support

Abdellatif El Khlifi abdellatif.elkhlifi at arm.com
Thu May 12 16:04:38 CEST 2022


On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:55:14AM +0100, Abdellatif El Khlifi wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:43:25AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 01:27:57PM +0100, abdellatif.elkhlifi at arm.com wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Abdellatif El Khlifi <abdellatif.elkhlifi at arm.com>
> > > 
> > > This patchset adds support for Arm FF-A (Arm Firmware Framework for Armv8-A v1.0).
> > > 
> > > FF-A support is generic by design and can be used by any Arm platform.
> > > 
> > > The features added are as follows:
> > >     
> > > 1/ FF-A bus driver
> > > 2/ armffa command
> > > 3/ FF-A Sandbox driver
> > > 4/ FF-A Sandbox test cases
> > > 5/ FF-A MM communication
> > > 
> > > The suggested design considers FF-A as a discoverable bus.
> > > The Secure World is considered as one entity to communicate with using the FF-A bus.
> > > FF-A communication is handled by one device and one instance (the bus).
> > > This FF-A driver takes care of all the interactions between Normal world
> > > and Secure World.
> > > 
> > > The Secure World firmware runs  under TrustZone HW (such as Optee). The same approach was followed in the
> > > FF-A driver in Linux kernel (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c?h=v5.15#n211))
> > > 
> > > Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > > Cc: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
> > > Cc: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta at arm.com>
> > > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > Cc: Vishnu Banavath <vishnu.banavath at arm.com>
> > 
> > I don't see a changelog compared with v1.  Are any of the comments there
> > addressed?  Thanks.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tom
> 
> Thanks Tom. I'll add a changelog for future versions.
> 
> The current Changelog:
> 
> Changelog:
> ===============
> v2 (15 Apr 2022)
> * Make FF-A bus discoverable (remove device tree support, bind and probe FF-A device using device_bind and device_probe)
> 
> v1 (29 Mar 2022)
> * FF-A bus driver with device tree support
> * armffa command
> * FF-A Sandbox driver
> * FF-A Sandbox test cases
> * FF-A MM communication
>

Hello guys, gentle ping, any feedback about the implementation of FF-A as a discoverable
bus ?


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