Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] dt-bindings: firmware: qcom,scm: Document SDI disable

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 at 21:31, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:15:54AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 15/08/2023 15:59, Robert Marko wrote:
> > > IPQ5018 has SDI (Secure Debug Image) enabled by TZ by default, and that
> > > means that WDT being asserted or just trying to reboot will hang the board
> > > in the debug mode and only pulling the power and repowering will help.
> > > Some IPQ4019 boards like Google WiFI have it enabled as well.
> > >
> > > So, lets add a boolean property to indicate that SDI should be disabled.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scm.yaml | 8 ++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scm.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scm.yaml
> > > index 4233ea839bfc..bf753192498a 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scm.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scm.yaml
> > > @@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ properties:
> > >        protocol to handle sleeping SCM calls.
> > >      maxItems: 1
> > >
> > > +  qcom,sdi-disable:
> >
> > The property should describe rather current hardware/firmware state,
> > instead of expressing your intention for OS what to do. Therefore rather:
> > qcom,sdi-enabled
> > or
> > qcom,secure-debug-image
>
> Why can't you just disable SDI unconditionally when going into debug
> mode? Is doing that when not enabled going to crash the system or
> something?

Because if not disabled you will enter the Secure Debug mode even on a
regular reboot and then you have to pull the power in order to boot again.
Even according to QCA docs they intended for the Linux to disable SDI as
TZ/QSEE will always enable it as part of booting.

Regards,
Robert
>
> Rob
>



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