This repo holds the work area and revisions of the non-ISA specification created by the RISC-V AP-TEE TG. This specification defines the programming interfaces (ABI) to support the Confidential VM Extension (CoVE) confidential computing architecture for RISC-V application-processor platforms.
For Supervisor Domain memory isolation, the Smmtt extension may be used for deployment scenarios where the TSM is at the same privilege level as the VMM.
Not sure we understand the significance of this qualification
this is simply stating that a TSM operating in a separate supervisor domain, operates at the same privilege mode as the VMM in the hosting supervisor domain.
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Not sure we understand the significance of this qualification