Hi Tim/Alistair
Is there any detailed proposal, as such we can have a discussion?

I am not sure what is the plan for the driver model version MCTP. If it is 
something mature, we can definitely discuss it.

Thank you
Yao, Jiewen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Alistair
> Francis
> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 11:39 AM
> To: [email protected]; LEWIS, TIM <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alan Weng <[email protected]>; Leon Chen <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] SPDM Transports
> 
> Hey Tim,
> 
> From my understanding the SPDM support in EDK2 is still very new and
> not yet (at least last time I looked) actually connected to anything.
> 
> Supporting a range of SPDM transports is important. It's not just MCTP
> and DOE, but the storage (ATA, SCSI and NVMe) protocols as well that
> should be supported.
> 
> It would be great if any abstraction takes into account a range of
> transport methods, at least allowing them to be implemented later. I'm
> currently slowly working towards DOE support [1], but if you are able
> to design a general SPDM abstraction that would be great and I would
> be happy to help where I can, although I'm not an EDK2 expert.
> 
> 1: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/5715
> 
> Alistair
> 
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 3:31 AM Tim Lewis via groups.io
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > We are actively implementing generic SPDM support into our codebase, 
> > starting
> with the code in EDK2. However, we are now trying to separate the SPDM code
> from PCI DoE (to use MCTP, for example). Right now it seems the EDK2 version 
> is
> hardcoded for PCI DoE. We would like to add some abstraction and are
> considering adding a separate driver that can sit on top of the MCTP layer. 
> Do you
> think we should pursue the driver model or do you have another way to support
> multiple SPDM transports?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim Lewis
> >
> > CTO, Insyde Software
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 



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