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From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
Cc: Salman Nabi <salman.nabi@arm.com>,
	Vedashree Vidwans <vvidwans@nvidia.com>,
	Trilok Soni <trilokkumar.soni@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	Nirmoy Das <nirmoyd@nvidia.com>,
	vsethi@nvidia.com, Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/8] dt-bindings: arm: Add Live Firmware Activation
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 2026 15:44:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260706134455.132091-2-andre.przywara@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260706134455.132091-1-andre.przywara@arm.com>

The Arm Live Firmware Activation spec [1] describes updating firmware
images during runtime, without requiring a reboot. Update images might
be deployed out-of-band, for instance via a BMC, in this case the OS
needs to be notified about the availability of a new image.

Describe an interrupt that could be triggered by the platform, to notify
about any changes.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0147/latest/

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,lfa.yaml      | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,lfa.yaml

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,lfa.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,lfa.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef8e250f2da7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,lfa.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/arm/arm,lfa.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Arm Live Firmware Activation (LFA)
+
+maintainers:
+  - Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
+  - Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
+
+description:
+  The Arm Live Firmware Activation (LFA) specification [1] describes a
+  firmware interface to activate an updated firmware at runtime, without
+  requiring a reboot. Updates might be supplied out-of-band, for instance
+  via a BMC, in which case the platform needs to notify an OS about pending
+  image updates.
+  [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0147/latest/
+
+properties:
+  compatible:
+    const: arm,lfa
+
+  interrupts:
+    maxItems: 1
+    description: notification interrupt for changed firmware image status
+
+required:
+  - compatible
+  - interrupts
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
+
+    firmware {
+        firmware-update {
+            compatible = "arm,lfa";
+            interrupts = <GIC_SPI 123 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+        };
+    };
+...
-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-06 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-06 13:44 [PATCH v3 0/8] Arm Live Firmware Activation (LFA) support Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` Andre Przywara [this message]
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] firmware: smccc: Add support for Live Firmware Activation (LFA) Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] firmware: smccc: lfa: Add timeout and trigger watchdog Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] firmware: smccc: lfa: Register ACPI notification Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] firmware: smccc: lfa: Add auto_activate sysfs file Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] firmware: smccc: lfa: Register DT interrupt Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] firmware: smccc: lfa: introduce SMC access lock Andre Przywara
2026-07-06 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] firmware: smccc: lfa: add sysfs ABI documentation Andre Przywara

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