Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware (SMM / Trustzone similitudes)

2013-12-06 Thread Andrew fish
m not the first one stumbling on this question and > seeking how others attempted to solve the above and if this a broader issue > that need to be further discussed in this forum. > > Thanks > -Alok > > > > From: Tim Lewis [mailto:tim.le...@insyde.com] >

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware (SMM / Trustzone similitudes)

2013-12-06 Thread Pant, Alok
<mailto:edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>; olivier.mar...@arm.com<mailto:olivier.mar...@arm.com> Subject: Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware Eugene - One of the issues for the SMM specification and TZ is the single-threaded nature. While most of ARM's TrustZone infrastru

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware (SMM / Trustzone similitudes)

2013-12-06 Thread Olivier Martin
empted to solve the above and if this a broader issue that need to be further discussed in this forum. Thanks -Alok From: Tim Lewis [mailto:tim.le...@insyde.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:39 AM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: Re: [edk2

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Pant, Alok
t; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware Eugene - One of the issues for the SMM specification and TZ is the single-threaded nature. While most of ARM's TrustZone infrastructure can be mapped easily to SMM, the possibility of having cores in TZ and o

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Zimmer, Vincent
most useful in practice. Vincent From: Tim Lewis [mailto:tim.le...@insyde.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:12 AM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware Vincent - But the multiple "in-TZ" c

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Tim Lewis
: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:01 AM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware Tim- Not sure if this helps, but recall that in PI1.2.1 we introduced concept of # of CPU's in SMM can be < # of CPU's in pl

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Zimmer, Vincent
more than one core in TZ at the same time raises some interesting issues (resource contention, etc.) Tim From: Cohen, Eugene [mailto:eug...@hp.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:29 AM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS &a

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Tim Lewis
some interesting issues (resource contention, etc.) Tim From: Cohen, Eugene [mailto:eug...@hp.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:29 AM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware Alok, I agree -- there is value in th

Re: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Cohen, Eugene
ce spec really an IA-specific concept or something that should become architecture agnostic?" Eugene From: Pant, Alok [mailto:alok.p...@amd.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 8:42 AM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; olivier.mar...@arm.com Subject: [edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted f

[edk2] ARM UEFI BIOS & Trusted firmware

2013-12-05 Thread Pant, Alok
Changing topic.. Hi Oliver, Thanks. I also I have few separate questions wrt to Trusted firmware & UEFI ARM code and hope you/others can help answer * It seems there are two direction for SecureMonitor implementation. In one implementation the SEC code (ArmPlatformPkg\Sec\Sec.c) install t