Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the formal release of Trusted Firmware-A version 2.6, Trusted Firmware-A Tests version 2.6, Hafnium version 2.6 and TF-A OpenCI Scripts 2.6 Releases involving the tagging of multiple sub repositories.

These went live on 24^th November 2021.

Notable Features of the Version 2.6 Release across repositories are as follows:

• v8-R64 Upstream support, trusted-boot (BL1) only
• RME patches (4 world support)
• Hunter & Hayes CPU support
• Demeter (Makalu ELP for Infra) CPU support
• ARM v9.0-A ETE V1.0
• ARM v9.1-A ETE V1.1
• Armv9 RME support
• Generic Firmware Update support
• Measured Boot Enhancements
• MPMM AMU support SME (Mortlach) for non-secure world (FEAT_SME)
• Security hardening LLVM/clang support.
• FF-A v1.1 notifications support.
• FF-A v1.1 interrupt handling support.
• S-EL0 partitions (through VHE in the secure world).
• SPM support for saving/restoring the normal world SVE live state.
• Build system update to LLVM/Clang 12.
• Updates to FF-A Setup and discovery.
• FF-A compliance fixes.
• Threat model introduced for SPMC at SEL2
• Eight new partner and Arm platforms support added

Please refer to the TF-A [1], Hafnium [2] and TF-A Tests [3] changelogs for the complete summary of changes the previous release.

The test plan and results [4] for the v2.6 release captures the release test activities.

TF-A [5], TF-A Test [6], Hafnium [7] and TF-A OpenCI Scripts [8] repositories are available

[1] https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/v2.6/

[2] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/hafnium/hafnium/+/HEAD/docs/ChangeLog.md#v2_6

[3] https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/v2.6/

[4] https://confluence.arm.com/display/BSGSoftware/TF-A+v2.6+Test+Plan+and+Result+Summary

[5] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/tag/?h=v2.6

[6] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/tf-a-tests.git/tag/?h=v2.6

[7] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/hafnium/hafnium.git/tag/?h=v2.6

[8] https://git.trustedfirmware.org/ci/tf-a-ci-scripts.git/tag/?h=v2.6

Thanks & best regards,

Bipin Ravi  |  Principal Design Engineer Bipin.Ravi@arm.com   |  Skype: Bipin.Ravi.ARM Direct:  +1-512-225 -1071  |  Mobile:  +1-214-212-0794 5707 Southwest Parkway, Suite 100,  Austin, TX 78735