TF-A April 2023

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Question about the Memory Encryption Engine on FVP

by Chenxu Wang

Hi all, I want to test the memory encryption functions in Arm CCA. Currently, I find that Arm FVP supports a PVMemoryProtectionEngine. Thus, can I use this engine in current TF-A or TF-A-Tests? If yes, how to use this engine? Sincerely, WANG Chenxu

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Updated invitation: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Apr 20, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been updated Changed: description TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Apr 20, 2023 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm United Kingdom Time Reserving for a discussion on Signer-id Extraction Design for Manish Badarkhe. More details of this session will be sent closer to the session date.-----------------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/Trusted 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 View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Reply for tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NWlub3Ewdm1tMmk1… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ 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

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TF-A code documentation

by Michal Simek

Hi, I have talked to a couple of people to figure out what TF-A project is using for code documentation. Because I see at least in our platform that our documentation is somewhere between doxygen and kernel-doc but actually with a lot of mismatches. Sanbrine mentioned sending an email to the mailing list to start to have discussion about it. That's why I want to know the official code documentation format and how we should be checking that everything matches to make sure that documentation is not out of sync from code itself. When this is clear I will ask my team to fix all these issues. Thanks, Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng), OpenPGP -> KeyID: FE3D1F91 w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Microblaze Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM and ZynqMP ARM64 SoCs U-Boot custodian - Xilinx Microblaze/Zynq/ZynqMP/Versal SoCs

2 years, 1 month

FEAT_SVE enablement in TF-A

by Jayanth Dodderi Chidanand

Hello all, We are sending this note to notify you of one of the breaking changes related to the enablement of FEAT_SVE in TF-A. This mainly impacts platforms which are configurable (FVP, QEMU, Total Compute). FEAT_SVE has now been moved under the Feature detection mechanism wherein a CPU feature macro can have 3 possible states * 0: FEAT_STATE_DISABLED * 1: FEAT_STATE_ALWAYS ( Always enabled, no runtime check) * 2: FEAT_STATE_CHECK (Dynamically check based on ID registers, done each time when feature registers are being accessed) For platforms which have a single configuration, it's better to choose either disabled or enabled (as it is a bit faster as there is no dynamic check). For platforms which can have different HW configurations, it makes sense to put them under FEAT_STATE_CHECK(=2), so that they will boot with any configuration of HW. Keeping this in mind, all configurable platforms (FVP, QEMU, TC) have been modified to adopt dynamic detection(FEAT_STATE_CHECK) for FEAT_SVE. [1] SVE Patch Reference: [1] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/20306 Best regards, Jayanth

2 years, 1 month

rk3399 issue: no DMA in Linux with mainline TF-A and U-Boot SPL

by Christoph Fritz

Hello Kever, on a rk3399, booting current U-Boot SPL with mainline TF-A leads to missing DMA (and no sound) on Linux. However, when using rockchip its so called mini-loader (rk3399_miniloader_v1.26.bin) and their BL31 (rk3399_bl31_v1.35.elf) to boot, DMA works perfectly fine. Tested on a custom rk3399 board and on ROCK Pi4. Attached to this mail are two boot logs with some debug prints: - good_amba_log.txt (DMA works) - no_amba_log.txt (no DMA device) The main difference I can spot between the two logs is that on Linux (drivers/amba/bus.c) AMBA_CID (0xb105f00d) cannot be found. Instead, only some CORESIGHT_CIDs (presumably for debugging) and four 0x00000000 CIDs are detected. As a result, the "PL330 DMAC-241330" driver does not load. My theory is that DMA needs to be allowed somewhere in the undocumented syscon- registers, similar to what U-Boot is already doing for eMMC in arch_cpu_init() (arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3399/rk3399.c). Any ideas? Or maybe I'm just missing some configuration? Since multiple software projects are involved (TF-A, OP-TEE, U-Boot, Linux), I Cc'ed a bit. Thanks -- Christoph

2 years, 1 month

Canceled event with note: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu Apr 6, 2023 4pm - 5pm (BST) (tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by joanna.farley＠arm.com

This event has been canceled with a note: "No topics this week so cancelling." TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Apr 6, 2023 ⋅ 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

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