Re: [PATCH 1/5] msm: Secure Channel Manager (SCM) support

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon Dec 06 2010 - 15:52:56 EST


On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:00:48PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:16:14 PST, Jeff Ohlstein said:
>
> > SCM is the protocol used to communicate between the secure and
> > non-secure code executing on the applications processor.
>
> Does the presence of SCM hardware imply SMP? From reading this, it's unclear
> why the dependence on SMP - it looks like scm.c is something that hardware that
> has one ARM processor and a 'secure processor' would still want. Or is the
> 'secure processor' just another (arbitrarily labeled) ARM CPU participating
> as a full SMP processor?

It's referring to the secure mode, which is a separate address space and
system running on the same CPU.
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