Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: Add ARM PSA FF binding for non-secure VM partitions

Achin Gupta
2020-06-11T15:46:50Z

Hi Will,

> On 10 Jun 2020, at 08:43, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 04:35:51PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:45:10AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>> Add devicetree bindings for a Arm PSA FF-A compliant non-secure partition
>>> at virtual interface(VMs).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>>> ---
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,psa-ffa.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,psa-ffa.txt
>>
>> I'm hoping this goes away if the firmware is discoverable, but if not DT
>> bindings are DT schema now.
>
> We'll need the binding for the kvm host side, because there are plenty
> of partition properties that are not discoverable (e.g. number of vCPUs).

Just trying to understand the req. a bit better…

The FF-A driver in the host can use FFA_PARTITION_INFO_GET to determine the count of partitions and their vCPUs.

Is this about a guest being able to find out how many vCPUs it has?

Cheers,
Achin

>
> I'll have a go a yamlifying what I have...
>
> Will
>