On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 04:16:53PM +0100, abdellatif.elkhlifi@arm.com wrote:
> From: Abdellatif El Khlifi <abdellatif.elkhlifi@arm.com>
> 
> This patchset adds support for Arm FF-A (Arm Firmware Framework for Armv8-A v1.0).
> 
> FF-A support is generic by design and can be used by any Arm platform.
> 
> The features added are as follows:
>     
> 1/ FF-A device driver
> 2/ armffa command
> 3/ FF-A Sandbox driver
> 4/ FF-A Sandbox test cases
> 5/ FF-A MM communication
> 
> 
> The suggested design sees FF-A as a data bus allowing data exchange with the firmware
> running under TrustZone HW (such as Optee). The same approach was followed in the
> FF-A driver in Linux kernel (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/bus.c?h=v5.15#n211))
> 
> u-boot boards using FF-A can provide a device tree node in a <board>-u-boot.dtsi file.
> Since the node can not be hosted in Linux device tree, we suggest using u-boot device tree.

Why can't the node be in the upstream tree?  It should be, so that it
can be shared between all users.  Especially since there's in-Linux
users?

-- 
Tom