Hi All,
We are pleased to announce the formal release of Trusted Firmware-A version 2.13 bundle of project deliverables.
This includes Trusted Firmware-A, Trusted Firmware-A Tests, Hafnium, TF-RMM, Trusted Services, and TF-A OpenCI scripts/jobs components.
These went live on May, 22nd 2025.
Please find references to tags and change logs at the end of this email.
Many thanks to the trustedfirmware.org community for the active engagement in delivering this release!
Notable features of the release version 2.13 are as follows:
TF-A/EL3
* Alto CPU support
*
Architecture feature support for PMUv3p9. PAUTH_LR and SPE_FDS.
* Refactor PSCI to let each CPU core initialise its own context, allowing TF-A to natively handle asymmetric configurations
*
PSCI Powerdown abandon feature support
*
SMCCC_FEATURE_AVAILABILITY support based on SMCCC v1.5 specification
* Firmware Handoff
* Library enhancements to add more TE types in library
* All BL interfaces for FVP are now migrated to use Transfer List along in different boot scenarios (RESET_TO_BL1/BL2/BL31)
*
TC platform is now using Transfer List for booting
* HOB creation Library (from edk2) is now hosted in TF-A
* New Platforms: mt8189, mt8196, qcs615, RK3576, AM62L
Boot flow
* Feature Additions
* Added discrete TPM support in BL1/BL2 for the RPi3 platform.
*
Support for MbedTLS PSA Crypto with ROMLIB on FVP.
*
Redesigned PSA Crypto Key ID management to avoid repeated key creation/destruction.
*
Test Additions
*
Support for MbedTLS PSA Crypto with ROMLIB on FVP.
*
Added basic boot test for TF-RMM with TF-A and TFTF (Realm Payload) in Jenkins CI.
*
Integrated DRTM ACS test suite into TF-A Jenkins CI.
*
Added missing test configuration for ROTPK in register on FVP platform.
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Build System
*
Refactored ROTPK key/hash generation to auto-generate required files during build.
*
mbedTLS Improvements
*
Migrated to mbedTLS version 3.6.3.
Errata/Security mitigations (CPU/GIC)
*
CVE-2024-5660, CVE-2024-7881
* Cortex-A510, Cortex-A715, Cortex-X4, Cortex-X925, Neoverse V3
Hafnium/SPM (S-EL2)
* FF-A v1.2 completed: indirect messaging with service UUIDs.
* FF-A v1.3 early adoption: Update to FFA_MEM_PERM_GET ABIs.
* StMM integration: provide HOB structure as boot information.
* Power management update:
* Bootstrapped secondary vCPUs on secondary cores power on flows.
* SP's subscription to the power off event.
* SP loading: SP artefacts can be bundled in a TL format. I.e SP binary and SP manifest (DTB).
* Resuming ECs for interrupt handling assisted by NWd Scheduler when the SP is in waiting state, with sri-interrupts-policy field in the SP manifest.
TF-RMM (R-EL2)
* Deprivileging RMM code via EL0 App support
*
Added some support for some RMMv1.1 APIs - "RMI_DEV_MEM_(UN)MAP", support for device granules in "RMI_GRANULE_DELEGATE" and "RMI_GRANULE_UNDELEGATE".
*
Additional hardening of RMM via compiler flags `-fstack-protector-strong`, '-Wextra', '-Wstrict-overflow', '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' and '-Wnull-dereference'.
*
New platform support for RD-V3-R1 and RD-V3-R1-Cfg1 FVPs.
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Dynamic discovery of PCIE Root complex topology and device memory from the Boot manifest.
Trusted Services (v1.2.0)
* Introduced the fTPM SP. The implementation is experimental.
*
Introduce the new Arm Reference Design-1 AE platform targeting the Automotive segment. It features
high-performance Arm Neoverse V3AE Application Processor compute system, Arm Cortex-R82AE based Safety Island, and
a Runtime Security Engine (RSE) for enhanced security.
*
Updated the se-proxy deployment and added support for the Firmware Update Proxy service. The FWU Proxy implements a Platform Security Firmware Update for the A-profile Arm Architecture<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0118/latest/> compliant FWU Agent which runs a PSA Certified Firmware Update API 1.0<https://arm-software.github.io/psa-api/fwu/1.0/> compliant client as its backend.
TF-A Tests
* Enhancements to fuzzing tests (EL3 vendor specific SMC, SDEI, FF-A interface, capability for randomized fuzzing inputs)
* Functionality test
* Firmware Handoff : AArch32 tests and event log testing
* SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURE_AVAILABILITY
* RAS system registers, FPMR, SCTLR2, THE and D128
* validate psci_is_last_cpu_to_idle_at_pwrlvl
* SPM/FF-A : HOB generation, PPI timer interrupts, v1.2 RXTX headers
* RMM: Tests introduced for majority of features developed in RMM
* Platform Support
* Versal NET
* Versal
* Neoverse-RD
Release tags across repositories:
https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/r…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/refs/tags…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/ci/tf-a-ci-scripts/+/refs/t…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/ci/tf-a-job-configs/+/refs/…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/hafnium/hafnium.git/+/refs/…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/ci/hafnium-ci-scripts/+/ref…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/ci/hafnium-job-configs/+/re…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/+/refs/tags/t…https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TS/trusted-services/+/refs/…
Change logs:
https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/v2.13.0/change-log.html#id1https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/v2.13.0/change-log.html#v…https://hafnium.readthedocs.io/en/v2.13.0/change-log.html#v2-13https://tf-rmm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/change-log.html#v0-7-0https://trusted-services.readthedocs.io/en/stable/project/change-log.html#v…
Regards,
Olivier.
Hi All,
The next release of the Firmware-A bundle of projects tagged v2.13 has an expected code freeze date of May, 2nd 2025.
In order to accommodate the Linaro connect event occurring during the week of May 12th we may extend the release completion date up until the week of May 26th.
v2.13 release preparation tasks start from now.
We want to ensure that planned feature patches for the release are submitted in good time for the review process to conclude.
As a kind recommendation and a matter of sharing CI resources, please launch CI jobs with care e.g.:
-For simple platform, docs changes, or one liners, use Allow-CI+1 label (no need for a full Allow-CI+2 run).
-For large patch stacks use Allow-CI+2 at top of the patch stack (and if required few individual Allow+CI+1 labels in the middle of the patch stack).
-Carefully analyze results and fix the change if required, before launching new jobs on the same change.
-If after issuing a Allow-CI+1 or Allow-CI+2 label a Build start notice is not added as a gerrit comment on the patch right away please be patient as under heavy load CI jobs can be queued and in extreme conditions it can be over an hour before the Build start notice is issued. Issuing another Allow-CI+1 or Allow-CI+2 label will just result in an additional job being queued.
Regards,
Olivier.
Hi,
I have a couple of questions related to notification.
Recently, we are working on kernel upgrade and I found this log while booting.
| genirq: Flags mismatch irq 6. 00004401 (ARM-FFA-NPI) vs. 00004400 (IPI)
| ARM FF-A: Error registering percpu NPI nIRQ 6 : -16
| ARM FF-A: Notification setup failed -16, not enabled
This does not affect the other functionalities when I tested using xtest of OP-TEE.
And, I found a commit [1] related this log in linux kernel and it said
| If the firmware returns incorrect SRI/NRI number, we fail to set it up
| in the kernel which is absolutely fine.
So I checked hafnium and I found that hafnium returns "5" as HF_NOTIFICATION_PENDING_INTID [2]
and it conflicts with IPI numbers (IPI_TIMER) [3].
So the question is :
1. HF_NOTIFICATION_PENDING_INTID seems to be conflicted. Do you have any plan to change its number greater than MAX_IPI?
2. Or, Is there the other way to avoid IRQ number conflicts? I mean, Did I miss something to configure?
3. Actually, I haven't find any use-case of notification yet. so notification is still working in progress?
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/171396205191.700527.18157351542957…
[2] https://github.com/TF-Hafnium/hafnium/blob/main/inc/vmapi/hf/types.h#L62
[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.14.1/source/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c#L72
Hi,
You must have noticed slowness or breakages with review.trustedfirmware.org or git.trustedfirmware.org during the week.
There are high and lows of network bandwidth usage affecting server availability.
The issue is being investigated but not yet 100% root caused.
Apologies for the frustration and inconvenience that this is causing.
Rest assured the team is on board to resolve this unfortunate situation.
Regards,
Olivier.
Hi,
As a follow up to the Firmware-A v2.12 release [1], we are pleased to share the shrinkwrap tool [2]
configurations have been updated to consume latest firmware/upstream ingredients using following tags:
TF-A: v2.12.0
TF-a-tests: v2.12.0
Hafnium: v2.12.0
TF-RMM: tf-rmm-v0.6.0
CCA EDK2: 3223_arm_cca_rmm_v1.0_rel0_v3
linux: cca-full/v5+v7
kvmtool: cca/v3
An additional merge request is in queue for kvm-unit-tests update to cca/rmm-v1.0-rel0 tag.
Shrinkwrap is a convenient tool for building a fully integrated Arm CCA SW stack running on
the Base AEM FVP platform. In particular this is the tool of choice for RMM development to
reproduce a 3 or 4 worlds RME based environment.
Regards,
Olivier.
[1] https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.…
[2] https://shrinkwrap.docs.arm.com/en/latest/
Hi All,
The next release of the Firmware-A bundle of projects tagged v2.12 has an expected code freeze date of Nov, 8th 2024.
Refer to the release cadence section from TF-A documentation (https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/release-informatio…).
Closing out the release takes around 6-10 working days after the code freeze.
v2.12 release preparation tasks start from now.
We want to ensure that planned feature patches for the release are submitted in good time for the review process to conclude.
As a kind recommendation and a matter of sharing CI resources, please launch CI jobs with care e.g.:
-For simple platform, docs changes, or one liners, use Allow-CI+1 label (no need for a full Allow-CI+2 run).
-For large patch stacks use Allow-CI+2 at top of the patch stack (and if required few individual Allow+CI+1 labels in the middle of the patch stack).
-Carefully analyze results and fix the change if required, before launching new jobs on the same change.
-If after issuing a Allow-CI+1 or Allow-CI+2 label a Build start notice is not added as a gerrit comment on the patch right away please be patient as under heavy load CI jobs can be queued and in extreme conditions it can be over an hour before the Build start notice is issued. Issuing another Allow-CI+1 or Allow-CI+2 label will just result in an additional job being queued.
--
Thanks,
Govindraj R
+ other MLs
________________________________
From: Olivier Deprez
Sent: 30 October 2024 11:41
To: tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org <tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org>
Subject: TF-A Tech Forum regular call
Dear TF-A ML members,
As mentioned in https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/, trustedfirmware.org hosts regular technical calls on Thursdays. It mentions TF-A although in practise a number of Cortex-A projects beyond TF-A were discussed (refer to prior recordings on this page).
Unfortunately this slot hasn't been very active recently.
By this email I'm kindly emphasizing this forum is open to the community (and beyond trustedfirmware.org members) and you are welcome to propose topics. Presentations/slides are not strictly necessary, and we can also host informal discussions or session of questions. If you think of a topic, please reach to me and I'll be happy to accommodate.
Thanks for your contributions in advance!
Regards,
Olivier.
Hi,
I have a couple of question about SMP support of linux driver.
We'd like to run multiple SP that uses secondary cores.
The first SP can initialize all secondary vCPUs when linux invokes cpu on for all secondary cores.
But the other SP doesn't initialize its secondary vCPUs.
If My understanding is correct,
they will be initialized when FFA_RUN calls to each vCPUs are called [1]
and FFA_RUN calls are called by Normal world driver in linux [2].
But I can't find any implementations regarding this in the latest upstream linux (v6.10).
Actually, I found ffa_cpu_ops in linux code [3], but couldn't the place where it is used.
I think that ffa_run has to be called in driver to initialize secodary vCPUs of secondary VMs.
Am I missing something in the code?
Or Is there no implementation yet in upstream?
I'd like to know about the current status of secondary VM SMP support in linux.
If linux driver doesn't support it yet,
Do you have any plan to make an implementation and merge it?
Thanks,
Sungbae Yoo.
[1] https://hafnium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/secure-partition-manager/secure-pa…
[2] https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/hafnium@lists.trustedfirmwa…
[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11-rc5/source/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/…
