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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=================================
+TS-TEE (Trusted Services project)
+=================================
+
+This driver provides access to secure services implemented by Trusted Services.
+
+Trusted Services [1] is a TrustedFirmware.org project that provides a framework
+for developing and deploying device Root of Trust services in FF-A [2] S-EL0
+Secure Partitions. The project hosts the reference implementation of the Arm
+Platform Security Architecture [3] for Arm A-profile devices.
+
+The FF-A Secure Partitions (SP) are accessible through the FF-A driver [4] which
+provides the low level communication for this driver. On top of that the Trusted
+Services RPC protocol is used [5]. To use the driver from user space a reference
+implementation is provided at [6], which is part of the Trusted Services client
+library called libts [7].
+
+All Trusted Services (TS) SPs have the same FF-A UUID; it identifies the TS RPC
+protocol. A TS SP can host one or more services (e.g. PSA Crypto, PSA ITS, etc).
+A service is identified by its service UUID; the same type of service cannot be
+present twice in the same SP. During SP boot each service in the SP is assigned
+an "interface ID". This is just a short ID to simplify message addressing.
+
+The generic TEE design is to share memory at once with the Trusted OS, which can
+then be reused to communicate with multiple applications running on the Trusted
+OS. However, in case of FF-A, memory sharing works on an endpoint level, i.e.
+memory is shared with a specific SP. User space has to be able to separately
+share memory with each SP based on its endpoint ID; therefore a separate TEE
+device is registered for each discovered TS SP. Opening the SP corresponds to
+opening the TEE device and creating a TEE context. A TS SP hosts one or more
+services. Opening a service corresponds to opening a session in the given
+tee_context.
+
+Overview of a system with Trusted Services components::
+
+ User space Kernel space Secure world
+ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ +--------+ +-------------+
+ | Client | | Trusted |
+ +--------+ | Services SP |
+ /\ +-------------+
+ || /\
+ || ||
+ || ||
+ \/ \/
+ +-------+ +----------+--------+ +-------------+
+ | libts | | TEE | TS-TEE | | FF-A SPMC |
+ | | | subsys | driver | | + SPMD |
+ +-------+----------------+----+-----+--------+-----------+-------------+
+ | Generic TEE API | | FF-A | TS RPC protocol |
+ | IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*) | | driver | over FF-A |
+ +-----------------------------+ +--------+-------------------------+
+
+References
+==========
+
+[1] https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/trusted-services/
+
+[2] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0077/
+
+[3] https://www.arm.com/architecture/security-features/platform-security
+
+[4] drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/
+
+[5] https://trusted-services.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.0/developer/service-access-protocols.html#abi
+
+[6] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TS/trusted-services.git/tree/components/rpc/ts_rpc/caller/linux/ts_rpc_caller_linux.c?h=v1.0.0
+
+[7] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TS/trusted-services.git/tree/deployments/libts/arm-linux/CMakeLists.txt?h=v1.0.0