u-boot/doc/usage/cmd/armffa.rst
Abdellatif El Khlifi f16a48fec9 arm_ffa: introduce armffa command
Provide armffa command showcasing the use of the U-Boot FF-A support

armffa is a command showcasing how to invoke FF-A operations.
This provides a guidance to the client developers on how to
call the FF-A bus interfaces. The command also allows to gather secure
partitions information and ping these  partitions. The command is also
helpful in testing the communication with secure partitions.

For more details please refer to the command documentation [1].

A Sandbox test is provided for the armffa command.

[1]: doc/usage/cmd/armffa.rst

Signed-off-by: Abdellatif El Khlifi <abdellatif.elkhlifi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Cc: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 10:22:03 -04:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
.. Copyright 2022-2023 Arm Limited and/or its affiliates <open-source-office@arm.com>
armffa command
==============
Synopsis
--------
::
armffa [sub-command] [arguments]
sub-commands:
getpart [partition UUID]
lists the partition(s) info
ping [partition ID]
sends a data pattern to the specified partition
devlist
displays information about the FF-A device/driver
Description
-----------
armffa is a command showcasing how to use the FF-A bus and how to invoke its operations.
This provides a guidance to the client developers on how to call the FF-A bus interfaces.
The command also allows to gather secure partitions information and ping these partitions.
The command is also helpful in testing the communication with secure partitions.
Example
-------
The following examples are run on Corstone-1000 platform.
* ping
::
corstone1000# armffa ping 0x8003
SP response:
[LSB]
fffffffe
0
0
0
0
* ping (failure case)
::
corstone1000# armffa ping 0
Sending direct request error (-22)
* getpart
::
corstone1000# armffa getpart 33d532ed-e699-0942-c09c-a798d9cd722d
Partition: id = 8003 , exec_ctxt 1 , properties 3
* getpart (failure case)
::
corstone1000# armffa getpart 33d532ed-e699-0942-c09c-a798d9cd7221
INVALID_PARAMETERS: Unrecognized UUID
Failure in querying partitions count (error code: -22)
* devlist
::
corstone1000# armffa devlist
device name arm_ffa, dev 00000000fdf41c30, driver name arm_ffa, ops 00000000fffc0e98
Configuration
-------------
The command is available if CONFIG_CMD_ARMFFA=y and CONFIG_ARM_FFA_TRANSPORT=y.
Return value
------------
The return value $? is 0 (true) on success, 1 (false) on failure.