TF-A November 2022

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by Soby Mathew

Hi Everyone The TF-RMM team is pleased to announce the first public release of RMM implementation aligned to RMM Beta0 Specification [1] . The RMM is a software component that runs at Realm EL2 and forms part of a system which implements the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (Arm CCA). The implementation can create Realm VMs in the Realm PAS and the Realm contents can be attested as specified in the RMM specification. The official trustedfirmware.org git repo can be found at : https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-RMM/tf-rmm.git/. There is also a github read-only mirror and can be found at https://github.com/TF-RMM/tf-rmm . Contributions will be accepted via TF-RMM gerrit at trustedfirmware.org : https://review.trustedfirmware.org/q/project:TF-RMM%252Ftf-rmm Please see the readme [2] and the getting started guide [3] to get started with RMM. We expect patches for supporting Realm Management Extension (RME) in linux kernel and related kvm-unit-tests to be available in the coming months. The patch to exercise Realm creation and execution via TF-A-Tests is in review at the moment [4] and the OOB instructions for the same can be found in TF-A RME documentation [5]. We expect these patches to be part of the upcoming TF-A v2.8 release. The mailing list for the project is tf-rmm(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org<mailto:tf-rmm@lists.trustedfirmware.org>. Looking forward to fruitful community engagement and successful deployment Arm CCA systems in future. Best Regards Soby Mathew PS : We hope to setup readthedocs documentation in the coming days, but till then , please bear with the github rendering of the rst documentation. [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0137/1-0bet0/?lang=en [2] https://github.com/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/blob/main/docs/readme.rst [3] https://github.com/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/blob/main/docs/getting_started/getting-sta… [4] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/17221 [5] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/17610

4 months, 3 weeks

V2.8 Release code freeze notification

by Joanna Farley

Hi all, As documented in the Release Cadence section of the TF-A documentation (https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/release-informatio…) the v2.8 release has an expected code freeze date of 3rd week of November 2022. That equates to the start of that week Monday 14th November which is one calendar month away from tomorrow when the rc0 tag will be applied. Closing out the release takes around 6-10 working days normally over the last few releases. We want to ensure that planned feature patches for the release are submitted in good time for the review process to conclude. Preparations for v2.8 release is already underway. Thanks Joanna

4 months, 3 weeks

Conditional CMOs

by Okash Khawaja

Hi, When a core is in debug recovery mode its caches are not invalidated upon reset, so the L1 and L2 cache contents from before reset are observable after reset. Similarly, debug recovery mode of DynamIQ cluster ensures that contents of the shared L3 cache are also not invalidated upon transition to On mode. A common use case of booting cores in debug recovery mode is to boot with caches disabled and preserve the caches until a point where software can dump the caches and retrieve their contents. TF-A however unconditionally cleans and invalidates caches at multiple points during boot, e.g. in bl31_entrypoint when cleaning bss and .data sections. This will not only lose the cache content needed for debugging but will potentially corrupt memory as well, leading to bugs when booting in recovery mode. Can we make CMOs in lib/aarch64/cache_helpers.S conditional upon some platform hook to address above scenario? Happy to work on a patch if the idea of conditional CMOs makes sense. Thanks, Okash

4 months, 3 weeks

Canceled event with note: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Nov 3, 2022 4pm - 5pm (GMT) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been canceled with a note: "No topics received so cancelling this week." TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Nov 3, 2022 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time We run an open technical forum call for anyone to participate and it is not restricted to Trusted Firmware project members. It will operate under the guidance of the TF TSC. Feel free to forward this invite to colleagues. Invites are via the TF-A mailing list and also published on the Trusted Firmware website. Details are here: https://www.trustedfirmware.org/meetings/tf-a-technical-forum/Tr… Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/9159704974Meeting ID: 915 970 4974One tap mobile+16465588656,,9159704974# US (New York)+16699009128,,9159704974# US (San Jose)Dial by your location        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)        877 853 5247 US Toll-free        888 788 0099 US Toll-freeMeeting ID: 915 970 4974Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h   Guests marek.bykowski(a)gmail.com okash.khawaja(a)gmail.com tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

4 months, 4 weeks

TF-A TechForum this Thursday 3rd November at 4pm GMT

by Joanna Farley

Hi Everyone, We have a TF-A Tech forum scheduled for this Thursday at 4pm GMT. Note the UK clocks moved to GMT from BST last weekend so the meeting may appear an hour different than in previous weeks in your calendar. At this time I do not have any topics to present. Please do reach out to me if you have any topics you would like to present to the TF-A community. If I do not find a topic or hear from the community that they have a topic I will cancel end of day this coming Wednesday 2nd November. Thanks Joanna

4 months, 4 weeks

Inconsistencies with PLAT_XLAT_TABLES_DYNAMIC

by Jeffrey Kardatzke

Hello, Is there a reason there are inconsistencies in the handling of PLAT_XLAT_TABLES_DYNAMIC? Specifically I'm referring to in some places it uses #ifdef logic: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/lib/utils/… and then in others it's using #if: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/include/li… Also in some places it uses add_define: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/services/s… and in others it's explicitly adding the define (w/ or w/out a value) to the _FLAGS for an image. https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/plat/imx/i… https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tree/plat/arm/b… I wanted to make use of this config option and noticed it wasn't getting picked up even when it was set and was considering cleaning up the usage of it by adding it to make_helpers/defaults.mk and then changing all the #ifdef's for it to be #if's. Thanks, -- Jeffrey Kardatzke jkardatzke(a)google.com Google, Inc.

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