Re: ACPI support for optee driver

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 02:17:38PM +0530, Mayuresh Chitale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on adding APCI support to optee kernel driver and was
> considering implementing it in the following way:
> 
> - An optee device node would be added to the bios as follows:
> Device(OPTE) {
>       Name(_HID, ...)
>       Name(_CID, ...)
>       Name(_DDN, ...)
>       Name (_DSD, Package () {
>           Package () {
>             Package (2) {"method", "smc"}
>           }

This _DSD is malformed as it is missing UUID.

>       })
>     }
> 
> - The optee kernel driver would then search for \\SB.OPTE device using
> acpi_get_handle and parse the node to get the conduit method.

You can use the standard device_property_* (see
include/linux/property.h) accessors which fully support _DSD device
properties.

> I was wondering if this is the correct way to implement it and if so
> do I need to get the OPTE device registered?  Your feedback is really
> appreciated.

There is something documented here:

Documentation/acpi/DSD-properties-rules.txt