[PATCH v3 00/15] firmware: qcom: Add OP-TEE PAS service support

Sumit Garg
2026-03-27T13:11:18Z

Qcom platforms has the legacy of using non-standard SCM calls
splintered over the various kernel drivers. These SCM calls aren't
compliant with the standard SMC calling conventions which is a
prerequisite to enable migration to the FF-A specifications from Arm.

OP-TEE as an alternative trusted OS to Qualcomm TEE (QTEE) can't
support these non-standard SCM calls. And even for newer architectures
using S-EL2 with Hafnium support, QTEE won't be able to support SCM
calls either with FF-A requirements coming in. And with both OP-TEE
and QTEE drivers well integrated in the TEE subsystem, it makes further
sense to reuse the TEE bus client drivers infrastructure.

The added benefit of TEE bus infrastructure is that there is support
for discoverable/enumerable services. With that client drivers don't
have to manually invoke a special SCM call to know the service status.

So enable the generic Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) provided
by the firmware. It acts as the common layer with different TZ
backends plugged in whether it's an SCM implementation or a proper
TEE bus based PAS service implementation.

The TEE PAS service ABI is designed to be extensible with additional API
as PTA_QCOM_PAS_CAPABILITIES. This allows to accommodate any future
extensions of the PAS service needed while still maintaining backwards
compatibility.

Currently OP-TEE support is being added to provide the backend PAS
service implementation which can be found as part of this PR [1].
This implementation has been tested on Kodiak/RB3Gen2 board with lemans
EVK board being the next target. In addition to that WIN/IPQ targets
planning to use OP-TEE will use this service too. Surely the backwards
compatibility is maintained and tested for SCM backend.

Patch summary:
- Patch #1: adds Kodiak EL2 overlay since boot stack with TF-A/OP-TEE
only allow UEFI and Linux to boot in EL2.
- Patch #2: adds generic PAS service.
- Patch #3: migrates SCM backend to generic PAS service.
- Patch #4: adds TEE/OP-TEE backend for generic PAS service.
- Patch #5-#13: migrates all client drivers to generic PAS service.
- Patch #14: drops legacy PAS SCM exported APIs.

The patch-set is based on v7.0-rc5 tag and can be found in git tree here
[2].

Merge strategy:

It is expected due to APIs dependency, the entire patch-set to go via
the Qcom tree. All other subsystem maintainers, it will be great if I
can get acks for the corresponding subsystem patches.

[1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/pull/7721
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sumit.garg/linux.git/log/?h=qcom-pas-v3

---
Changes in v3:
- Incorporated some style and misc. comments for patch #2, #3 and #4.
- Add QCOM_PAS Kconfig dependency for various subsystems.
- Switch from pseudo TA to proper TA invoke commands.

Changes in v2:
- Fixed kernel doc warnings.
- Polish commit message and comments for patch #2.
- Pass proper PAS ID in set_remote_state API for media firmware drivers.
- Added Maintainer entry and dropped MODULE_AUTHOR.

Mukesh Ojha (1):
arm64: dts: qcom: kodiak: Add EL2 overlay

Sumit Garg (14):
firmware: qcom: Add a generic PAS service
firmware: qcom_scm: Migrate to generic PAS service
firmware: qcom: Add a PAS TEE service
remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_pas: Switch over to generic PAS TZ APIs
remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_mss: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
soc: qcom: mdtloader: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
remoteproc: qcom_wcnss: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
remoteproc: qcom: Select QCOM_PAS generic service
drm/msm: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
media: qcom: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
net: ipa: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
wifi: ath12k: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs
firmware: qcom_scm: Remove SCM PAS wrappers
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer entry for Qualcomm PAS TZ service

MAINTAINERS | 9 +
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/Makefile | 2 +
arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso | 35 ++
drivers/firmware/qcom/Kconfig | 19 +
drivers/firmware/qcom/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas.c | 288 +++++++++++
drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas.h | 50 ++
drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas_tee.c | 478 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c | 302 ++++-------
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a5xx_gpu.c | 4 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c | 11 +-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/iris/Kconfig | 25 +-
.../media/platform/qcom/iris/iris_firmware.c | 9 +-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c | 11 +-
drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/net/ipa/ipa_main.c | 13 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ahb.c | 8 +-
drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_mss.c | 5 +-
drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_pas.c | 51 +-
drivers/remoteproc/qcom_wcnss.c | 12 +-
drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c | 12 +-
include/linux/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas.h | 43 ++
include/linux/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.h | 29 --
include/linux/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.h | 6 +-
28 files changed, 1114 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/kodiak-el2.dtso
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas.c
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas.h
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas_tee.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/firmware/qcom/qcom_pas.h

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