Hi,

In parallel with - and based on - the work by Jens to enable PSA FF-A as a transport for the SMC ABI (recently merged to the upstream as PR #3908) there's an effort to provide a fully-functional SPMC component in OP-TEE to manage S-EL0 Secure Partitions, with the goal of providing a similar set of PSA Root of Trust services over OP-TEE as presently supported for M-profile processors, while also providing a standard execution framework and ABI for potential integration of 3rd party partitions, such as StMM. Please note that this work is currently at the prototyping stage and is managed as a fork on trustedfirmware.org, but is planned to be merged with the official OP-TEE stream as it matures.

There's an initial set of patches on review to provide

* A library for S-EL0 SPs to access FF-A ABI at the SVC call interface: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/OP-TEE/optee_os/+/4751 * A change to introduce an SP build system to OP-TEE: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/OP-TEE/optee_os/+/4752 * OP-TEE kernel changes to support initialization and context management of SPs and the forwarding of FF-A messages to their designated endpoints: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/OP-TEE/optee_os/+/4987

All related open reviews at the moment can be found here: https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/project:OP-TEE%252Foptee_os+status:open

For the S-EL1 SPMC configuration functionality and requirements see the PSA FF-A specification (https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0077/latest)

Work is in progress to showcase the capabilities of the framework using a subset of PSA Crypto API and also to propose a standardized protocol layer for partitions, but as mentioned work is still at the early stages so expect gradual increments in functionality and flexibility. Any questions and feedback are very welcome

Cheers, Miklos

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