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Trusted Firmware v2.13 release announcement

by Olivier Deprez

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. * 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. * 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#id1 https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/v2.13.0/change-log.html#v… https://hafnium.readthedocs.io/en/v2.13.0/change-log.html#v2-13 https://tf-rmm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/change-log.html#v0-7-0 https://trusted-services.readthedocs.io/en/stable/project/change-log.html#v… Regards, Olivier.

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Notification setup failed log in the latest Linux

by Sungbae Yoo

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

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trustedfirmware git and gerrit slowness

by Olivier Deprez

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.

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Firmware-A v2.12 release follow up - shrinkwrap

by Olivier Deprez

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/

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Trusted Firmware v2.12 release announcement

by Olivier Deprez

Hi All, We are pleased to announce the formal release of Trusted Firmware-A version 2.12 bundle of project deliverables. This includes Trusted Firmware-A, Trusted Firmware-A Tests, Hafnium, RMM, Trusted Services, and TF-A OpenCI scripts/jobs components. These went live on Nov, 21st 2024. 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 2.12 are as follows: TF-A/EL3 * New CPUs support: Cortex-A320 (Arcadia), Cortex-A720AE. * Arch extensions: : FEAT_THE, FEAT_LS64_ACCDATA, FEAT_Debugv8p9, FEAT_SCTLR2, FEAT_FGT2 ; Arm 9.4 : FEAT_D128 support. * Context management: Asymmetric CPU features, EL3 execution context, SVE S/R support. * RME: GPT contiguous descriptor (or GPT large mappings support). * Arm CCA: added attestation generic library, el3 attestation token signing support. Boot flow * Tools: * Introduced the Transfer List Compiler (TLC) Host Tool supporting the FW hand-off specification. * Introduced CoT Device Tree to C File (DT2C) tool. * mbedTLS Improvements: * Resolved random authentication failures with ECDSA. * Enhanced mbedTLS configuration selection. * Maximize usage of mbedTLS library APIs in TF-A. * Upgraded to mbedTLS v3.6.1. * Feature addition/support: * Support for the ECDSA P-384 curve with the PSA Crypto implementation. * Documentation: * Added the DPE Design and Threat Model document to TF-A readthedocs. Errata (CPU/GIC) * Cortex-A720, Cortex-A520, Cortex-X4 errata. TF-A platforms support * New platforms added: TC4, RD-1 AE, RK3566/RK3568. * Platform fixes: FPGA, FVP, Neoverse-RD, TC, Corstone-1000, Allwinner, AST2700, Poplar, Agilex, A3K, MT8188, iMX8M, S32G274A, qemu, Rpi3, Rockchip, STM32MP1, STM32MP2, Versal, ZynqMP. Hafnium/SPM (S-EL2) * FF-A features additions * FF-A v1.2 FFA_MSG_WAIT RX buffer ownership flag. * FF-A v1.2 FFA_VERSION endpoint restriction. * FF-A v1.1 VM availability messages. * Architectural support * vCPU IPI signaling. * Arch timer virtualization. * RME: GPF support and memcpy hardening. * Secure Interrupt Handling for UP S-EL1 partitions. TF-RMM (R-EL2) * REL0 RMM 1.0 support. * Support for alternative attestation token signing via EL3. * Various improvements and bugfixes as listed in the change log. TF-A Tests * Arm arch. extensions: AMU, FEAT_FGT2, LS64_ACCDATA, FEAT_Debugv8p9, LS64 64-byte load/store. * Asymmetric feature testing (FEAT_SPE, FEAT_TRBE, FEAT_TCR2). * EL1 and EL2 context switch tests. * FF-A: v1.2 support, S-EL2 arch timer virtualization, S-EL2+RME hardening, EL3 SPMC TFTF test suite, EL3 SVE test coverage. * RME: RMM v1.0 testing support, PCIe DOE support, RMI support for FEAT_LPA2, SIMD, PAuth. * Platforms: AMD Versal Gen 2 added, Neoverse-RD refactoring, FVP PCIe support. 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/+/refs/tags… 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/v2.12.0/change-log.html#id1 https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/change-log.html#ve… https://hafnium.readthedocs.io/en/v2.12.0/change-log.html#v2-12 https://tf-rmm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/change-log.html#v0-6-0 Regards, Olivier.

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Re: TF-A Tech Forum regular call

by Olivier Deprez

+ 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.

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Hafnium in Industry

by Friedrich

Hi, Can someone explain to me where and why Hafnium is used in the industry? I've only ever seen it being used in academic research. Thanks, Friedrich

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Current status of NWd driver for secondary VM SMP support

by Sungbae Yoo

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/…

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Could you add a new gicd_set_ctlr() API to set GICD_CTLR to wait until RWP becomes zero?

by magicse7en＠outlook.com

Hi , Could you add below patch to gicv3_helpers.h? --- a/src/arch/aarch64/plat/interrupts/gicv3_helpers.h +++ b/src/arch/aarch64/plat/interrupts/gicv3_helpers.h @@ -203,6 +203,16 @@ static inline void gicd_wait_for_pending_write(uintptr_t gicd_base) } } +static inline void gicd_set_ctlr(uintptr_t base, + unsigned int bitmap, + unsigned int rwp) +{ + gicd_write_ctlr(base, gicd_read_ctlr(base) | bitmap); + if (rwp != 0U) { + gicd_wait_for_pending_write(base); + } +} + static inline uint32_t gicd_read_pidr2(uintptr_t base) { return io_read32(IO32_C(base + GICD_PIDR2_GICV3)); The existed gicd_write_ctlr() just write the GICD_CTLR, but from GIC spec, if write GICD_CTLR, it needs to wait the RWP bit becomes zero. Therefore, I think the gicd_set_ctlr() function of tf-a is a good choice. I tried to push this patch to https://review.trustedfirmware.org/, but I encountered below error. error: RPC failed; HTTP 403 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 403

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Trusted Firmware v2.10 Release Announcement

by Olivier Deprez

Hi All, We are pleased to announce the formal release of Trusted Firmware-A version 2.10 bundle of project deliverables. This includes Trusted Firmware-A, Trusted Firmware-A Tests, Hafnium, RMM and TF-A OpenCI Scripts/Jobs 2.10 releases involving the tagging of multiple repositories. These went live on 22nd November 2023. Please find references to tags and change logs at the end of this email. Many thanks to the community for the active engagement in delivering this release! Notable Features of the Version 2.10 Release are as follows: TF-A/EL3 Root World * New Features: * Firmware handoff library support * Improvements to BL31 runtime exception handling * Context management refactoring for RME/4 worlds * Gelas, Nevis & Travis CPUs support * V8.9 features enabled (FEAT_ HAFT, RPRFM, LRCPC3, MTE_PERM) TF-A Boot BL1/BL2 * New Features * Trusted Boot support for ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) * Migrated to PSA crypto API’s * Improved the GUID Partition Table (GPT) parser. * Various security Improvements and threat Model updates for ARM CCA * Signer id extraction Implementation Hafnium/SEL2 SPM * New Features: * FF-A v1.2: FFA_YIELD with time-out; EL3 SPMDs LSPs communication; memory sharing updates. * Memory region relative base address field support in SP manifests. * Interrupt re-configuration hypervisor calls. * Memory management: S2 PT NS/S IPA split * SMCCCv1.2+ compliance fixes. * Feature parity test improvements, EL3 SPMC and Hafnium (S-EL2 SPMC) TF-RMM/REL2 * New Feature/Support * Fenimore v1.0 EAC5 aligned implementation. * TFTF Enhancements for RME testing * Initial CBMC support * NS SME support in RMM * BTI support for RMM Errata * Errata implemented (1xCortex-X2/ Matterhorn-ELP, 1xCortex-A710/Matterhorn, 1xNeoverse N2/Perseus, 2xNeoverse V2/Demeter, Makalu ELP/Cortex X3, Klein/Cortex-A510) * Fix some minor defects with version in a few errata that applies for some follow up revisions of the CPUs. (Neoverse V1, Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710) TF-A Tests * Core * Added errata management firmware interface tests. * Added firmware handoff tests. * Introduced RAS KFH support test. * SPM/FF-A * Support SMCCCv1.2 extended GP registers set. * Test SMCCC compliance at the non-secure physical instance. * Test secure eSPI interrupt handling. * Test FF-A v1.2 FFA_PARTITION_INFO_GET_REGS interface. * RMM * Added FPU/SVE/SME tests * Added multiple REC single CPU tests. * Added PAuth support in Realms tests. * Added PMU tests. Platform Support * New platforms added: * Aspeed AST2700, NXP IMX93, Intel Agilex5, Nuvoton NPCM845x, QTI MDM9607, MSM8909, MSM8939, ST STM32MP2 Release tags across repositories: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/tf-a-tests.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/tf-a-ci-scripts.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/tf-a-job-configs.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/hafnium/hafnium.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/hafnium-ci-scripts.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/hafnium-job-configs.git/tag/?h=v2.10 https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-RMM/tf-rmm.git/tag/?h=tf-rmm-v0.4.0 Change logs: https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/v2.10/change-log.html#id1 https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/v2.10/change-log.html#ver… https://hafnium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/change-log.html#v2-10 https://tf-rmm.readthedocs.io/en/tf-rmm-v0.4.0/about/change-log.html#v0-4-0 Regards, Olivier.

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