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From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCHv2 2/3] ARMv8/layerscape: Add FSL PPA support
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:21:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453494092.27129.4.camel@buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM4PR0401MB1732E5EBABD2B77E66FCDBEB9AC40@AM4PR0401MB1732.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 20:18 +0000, york sun wrote:
> On 01/22/2016 12:14 PM, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Wood [mailto:oss at buserror.net]
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 1:39 AM
> > > To: york sun; Zhiqiang Hou; u-boot at lists.denx.de;
> > > albert.u.boot at aribaud.net; Mingkai.hu at freescale.com; Stuart Yoder;
> > > leoli at freescale.com; prabhakar at freescale.com;
> > > bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com; Zhiqiang Hou
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] ARMv8/layerscape: Add FSL PPA support
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 20:05 +0000, york sun wrote:
> > > > On 01/21/2016 01:53 AM, Zhiqiang Hou wrote:
> > > > > From: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@freescale.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > The FSL Primary Protected Application (PPA) is a software component
> > > > > loaded during boot which runs in TrustZone and remains resident
> > > > > after boot.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@freescale.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Tested on LS1043A RDB board
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I presume PSCI is implemented in PPA. How does the SMP boot flow
> > > > change with PPA? U-boot has to remain functional in the absence of
> > > > PPA,
> > > right?
> > > > 
> > > > Would it be possible to write a readme for PPA?
> > > 
> > > Also, how does the devicetree get updated to indicate the presence of
> > > PSCI?
> > > 
> > 
> > One needs to add PSCI node in the DTS for the same, claiming support for
> > PSCI specification.
> > The cpu.enable_method needs to be changed from spin-table to psci as well.
> > 
> > See http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings
> > /arm/psci.txt for details.
> > 
> 
> Bhupesh,
> 
> Before PPA is fully adopted, u-boot has to detect the existence of PPA and
> decide to use PSCI or spin table, right? So the device tree node should also
> be
> fixed accordingly.

How would U-Boot know what version of PSCI the loaded PPA supports?  Is or
could there be any metadata on the PPA image to convey such information?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21  9:44 [U-Boot] [PATCHv2 1/3] armv8: fsl-layerscape: add i/d-cache enable function to enable_caches Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-21  9:44 ` [U-Boot] [PATCHv2 2/3] ARMv8/layerscape: Add FSL PPA support Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-22 20:05   ` york sun
2016-01-22 20:09     ` Scott Wood
2016-01-22 20:14       ` Bhupesh Sharma
2016-01-22 20:17         ` Scott Wood
2016-01-22 20:26           ` Bhupesh Sharma
2016-01-25  3:11           ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-22 20:18         ` york sun
2016-01-22 20:21           ` Scott Wood [this message]
2016-01-22 20:27             ` Bhupesh Sharma
2016-01-22 20:30               ` york sun
2016-01-25  3:22                 ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-03-17 21:09                   ` york sun
2016-03-23  3:17                     ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-22 20:32               ` Scott Wood
2016-01-25  3:15             ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-25  3:16             ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-25  3:09       ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-25  3:02     ` Zhiqiang Hou
2016-01-21  9:44 ` [U-Boot] [PATCHv2 3/3] ARMv8/ls1043ardb: Integrate FSL PPA Zhiqiang Hou

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