virtio-rpmb - Support NVMe frame specification

[David Legault <dlegault@blackberry.com>]

Hello,

The virtio-rpmb specification should perhaps be amended to include the NVMe RPMB frame format which is completely different than the eMMC/UFS format. This may lead to the spec requiring some flags to signal what type of RPMB device the host is providing such that the guests may be able to build frames in the appropriate format for the device.

https://nvmexpress.org/developers/nvme-specification/

See figure 469 of the 1.4a spec found in the link above.

The control frame is a single entity 256 bytes long with optional data (read/write) coming in 512 byte sectors (eMMC/UFS = 256 bytes). All fields are also Little Endian and in a different order.

eMMC/UFS use 512 byte frames (with inline data) with Big Endian fields.

Regards,

David

 

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