In Qualcomm SoCs, firmware loading for Serial Engines (SE) in the QUP
hardware has traditionally been managed by TrustZone (TZ). This setup
handled Serial Engines(SE) assignments and access control permissions,
ensuring a high level of security but limiting flexibility and
accessibility.
This limitation poses a significant challenge for developers who need more
flexibility to enable any protocol on any of the SEs within the QUP
hardware.
To address this, we are introducing a change that opens the firmware
loading mechanism to the Linux environment. This enhancement increases
flexibility and allows for more streamlined and efficient management. We
can now handle SE assignments and access control permissions directly
within Linux, eliminating the dependency on TZ.
We propose an alternative method for firmware loading and SE
ownership/transfer mode configuration based on device tree configuration.
This method does not rely on other execution environments, making it
accessible to all developers.
For SEs used prior to the kernel, their firmware will be loaded by the
respective image drivers (e.g., Debug UART, Secure or trusted SE).
Additionally, the GSI firmware, which is common to all SEs per QUPV3 core,
will not be loaded by Linux driver but TZ only. At the kernel level, only
the SE protocol driver should load the respective protocol firmware.
Viken Dadhaniya (7):
dt-bindings: i2c: qcom,i2c-geni: Document DT properties for QUP
firmware loading
spi: dt-bindings: Document DT properties for QUP firmware loading
dt-bindings: serial: Document DT properties for QUP firmware loading
soc: qcom: geni-se:: Add support to load QUP SE Firmware via Linux
subsystem
i2c: qcom-geni: Load i2c qup Firmware from linux side
spi: geni-qcom: Load spi qup Firmware from linux side
serial: qcom-geni: Load UART qup Firmware from linux side
.../bindings/i2c/qcom,i2c-geni-qcom.yaml | 11 +
.../serial/qcom,serial-geni-qcom.yaml | 12 +
.../bindings/spi/qcom,spi-geni-qcom.yaml | 11 +
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c | 11 +-
drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c | 445 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/spi/spi-geni-qcom.c | 7 +-
drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 7 +-
include/linux/soc/qcom/geni-se.h | 17 +
include/linux/soc/qcom/qup-fw-load.h | 179 +++++++
9 files changed, 692 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/qcom/qup-fw-load.h
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