On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Abdellatif El Khlifi wrote:

> Add MM communication support using FF-A transport
> 
> This feature allows accessing MM partitions services through
> EFI MM communication protocol. MM partitions such as StandAlonneMM
> or smm-gateway secure partitions which reside in secure world.
> 
> An MM shared buffer and a door bell event are used to exchange
> the data.
> 
> The data is used by EFI services such as GetVariable()/SetVariable()
> and copied from the communication buffer to the MM shared buffer.
> 
> The secure partition is notified about availability of data in the
> MM shared buffer by an FF-A message (door bell).
> 
> On such event, MM SP can read the data and updates the MM shared
> buffer with the response data.
> 
> The response data is copied back to the communication buffer and
> consumed by the EFI subsystem.
> 
> MM communication protocol supports FF-A 64-bit direct messaging.
> 
> We tested the FF-A MM communication on the Corstone-1000 platform.
> 
> We ran the UEFI SCT test suite containing EFI setVariable, getVariable and
> getNextVariable tests which involve FF-A MM communication and all tests
> are passing with the current changes.
> 
> We made the SCT test reports (part of the ACS results) public following the
> latest Corstone-1000 platform software release. Please find the test
> reports at [1].
> 
> [1]: 
> https://gitlab.arm.com/arm-reference-solutions/arm-reference-solutions-test-report/-/tree/master/embedded-a/corstone1000/CORSTONE1000-2023.06/acs_results_fpga.zip
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abdellatif El Khlifi <abdellatif.elkhl...@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Gowtham Suresh Kumar <gowtham.sureshku...@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>
> Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklan...@linaro.org>

Thanks for re-working things again.

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom

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