[RFC] How implement Secure Data Path ?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:39:57PM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> Since few months I'm looking for Linaro to how do Secure Data Path (SPD).
> I have tried and implemented multiple thinks but I always facing architecture
> issues so I would like to get your help to solve the problem.
> 
> First what is Secure Data Path ? SDP is a set of hardware features to garanty
> that some memories regions could only be read and/or write by specific hardware
> IPs. You can imagine it as a kind of memory firewall which grant/revoke
> accesses to memory per devices. Firewall configuration must be done in a trusted
> environment: for ARM architecture we plan to use OP-TEE + a trusted
> application to do that.
> 
> One typical use case for SDP in a video playback which involve those elements:
> decrypt -> video decoder -> transform -> display

Sounds like a good enough reason not to implement it ever.