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From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
To: berrange@redhat.com, kchamart@redhat.com,
	pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	mst@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	eblake@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com,
	lorenzo.pieralisi@linaro.org, gshan@redhat.com,
	enju.kohei@fujitsu.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Subject: [RFC v3 22/24] docs/interop/firmware.json: Add arm-rme firmware feature
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:00:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825220101.3443954-23-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825220101.3443954-1-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>

From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>

Some distributions provide packages continaing firmware to be run under
QEMU, such as "qemu-efi-aarch64" or "edk2-aarch64". Those packages also
contain descriptors in /usr/share/qemu/firmware/*.json listing the
firmware features, so that environments like libvirt can figure out
which firmware they can load.

Define an optional feature for arm64 firmware to indicate that a
firmware supports running in a Realm. Firmware implementations need
extra support for running in a Realm, in particular to distinguish
shared from private guest memory.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
---
 docs/interop/firmware.json | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/interop/firmware.json b/docs/interop/firmware.json
index 421bee0e5ed4..2850b91078d9 100644
--- a/docs/interop/firmware.json
+++ b/docs/interop/firmware.json
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@
 #     options related to this feature are documented in
 #     "docs/system/i386/amd-memory-encryption.rst".
 #
+# @arm-rme: The firmware supports running in a Realm, under the Arm Realm
+#     Management Extension (RME).
+#
 # @intel-tdx: The firmware supports running under Intel Trust Domain
 #     Extensions (TDX).
 #
@@ -229,7 +232,7 @@
 { 'enum' : 'FirmwareFeature',
   'data' : [ 'acpi-s3', 'acpi-s4',
              'amd-sev', 'amd-sev-es', 'amd-sev-snp',
-             'intel-tdx',
+             'arm-rme', 'intel-tdx',
              'enrolled-keys', 'requires-smm',
              'secure-boot', 'host-uefi-vars',
              'verbose-dynamic', 'verbose-static' ] }
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-25 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-25 22:00 [RFC v3 00/24] Add Realm support to QEMU-VMM Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 01/24] linux-headers: Add RME related definitions Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 02/24] target/arm/kvm: Return immediately on error in kvm_arch_init() Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 03/24] target/arm: Add confidential guest support Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 04/24] target/arm/kvm-rme: Add mechanic to initialize realms Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 05/24] target/arm/kvm: Split kvm_arch_get/put_registers Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 06/24] target/arm/kvm-rme: Initialize vCPU Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 07/24] target/arm/kvm: Create scratch Realm VM when requested Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 08/24] target/arm/kvm: Use kvm_vm_check_extension() where necessary Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 09/24] hw/core/loader: Add a ROM loader notifier Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 10/24] target/arm/kvm-rme: Keep track of images loaded in Realm memory Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 11/24] target/arm/kvm-rme: Populate Realm with runtime images Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 12/24] target/arm/cpu: Set number of breakpoints and watchpoints in KVM Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 13/24] target/arm/cpu: Set number of PMU counters " Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 14/24] target/arm/cpu: Don't read Realm registers Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 15/24] hw/arm/virt: Set proper conduit method for Realms Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 16/24] hw/arm/virt: Embed Realm VM type with IPA address space Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 17/24] hw/arm/virt: Reserve one bit of guest physical address for RME Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 18/24] hw/arm/virt: Disable DTB randomness for confidential VMs Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 19/24] hw/arm/virt: Move virt_flash_create() to machvirt_init() Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 20/24] hw/arm/virt: Use RAM instead of flash for confidential guest firmware Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` [RFC v3 21/24] target/arm/kvm-rme: Add DMA remapping for the shared memory region Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:00 ` Mathieu Poirier [this message]
2026-08-25 22:01 ` [RFC v3 23/24] hw/arm/boot: Load DTB as is for confidential VMs Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-25 22:01 ` [RFC v3 24/24] hw/arm/boot: Skip bootloader for confidential guests Mathieu Poirier
2026-08-27 13:06 ` [RFC v3 00/24] Add Realm support to QEMU-VMM Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-27 13:28   ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2026-09-01 13:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-02 15:45   ` Mathieu Poirier

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