Re: [TF-A] Proposal: TF-A to adopt hand-off blocks (HOBs) for information passing between boot stages

2021-03-22 Thread François Ozog
+Boot Architecture Mailman List standardization is very much welcomed here and need to accommodate a very diverse set of situations. For example, TEE OS may need to pass memory reservations to BL33 or "capture" a device for the secure world. I have observed a number of architectures: 1) pass inf

DTE call today 4pm UK, noon US eastern

2021-03-22 Thread Bill Mills
All, We have our normal DTE call today.  Due to different day light saving time dates in US vs UK the meeting will be one hour later than usual for most US people. When I checked yesterday Frank was not yet ready to talk about the DTB format changes so I have no ready made agenda today. We h

Re: [TF-A] Proposal: TF-A to adopt hand-off blocks (HOBs) for information passing between boot stages

2021-03-22 Thread Simon Glass
Hi, Can I suggest using bloblist for this instead? It is lightweight, easier to parse, doesn't have GUIDs and is already used within U-Boot for passing info between SPL/U-Boot, etc. Docs here: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.bloblist Header file describes the format: https