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Firmware-A v2.12 release code freeze notification

by Govindraj Raja

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

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DA developer branches

by Soby Mathew

Hi Everyone, Developer branches for TF-RMM and the kernel, which demonstrate the device assignment setup flow is available. To reproduce this flow on FVP, there is a Shrinkwrap<https://shrinkwrap.docs.arm.com/en/latest/userguide/configstore/cca-3world.…> overlay. Instructions for using it can be found here : https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-RMM/tf-rmm.git/+/refs/he… The specific branches for the respective components are: TF-RMM: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-RMM/tf-rmm.git/+/refs/he… Linux: https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca/-/tree/cca-1.1/da/proto/rmm-1.1-… kvmtool: https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/kvmtool-cca/-/tree/cca-1.1/da/proto/rmm-1.… TF-A: Changes are merged in master , so tip of master should be good (https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/r…) This release is based on the RMM v1.1 Alpha 12 specification. It includes setting up a secure SPDM session for communication with DSM, TDISP, and IDE, including the RMM-EL3 interface for RP programming. This is entirely new development and has undergone limited internal review. As such, we are aware that the code lacks comprehensive checks and hardening. Additionally, Stage 2 MMU changes for device mappings the Stage 2 SMMU driver are not tested/supported. As a result, Realms cannot access device memory or support device DMA to Realm memory. Furthermore, the TDISP_En flag setting in DVSEC and other DVSEC programming have some gaps. This functionality is still under active development, and the programming and testing is limited to capabilities of the FVP. As development progresses, we will continue to update the branches accordingly. Any changes in user instructions will be reflected in the accompanying documentation. Best Regards Soby Mathew

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Canceled event: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu 23 Mar 2023 12pm - 1pm (EDT) (tf-rmm@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by Karen Power

This event has been canceled. TF-A Tech Forum Thursday 23 Mar 2023 ⋅ 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time - Toronto Discussion Topic: RAS Refactoring Presented by: Manish Pandey and Soby MathewTopics to be discussed 1. Introduction to philosophies of handling RAS errors(FFH/KFH) 2. Discussing exceptions caused by synchronization barriers at execption boundries 3. Refactoring and enhancements in TF-A(along with various build macros) 4. Tests introduced 5. Future work----------------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 Don Harbin bpeckham(a)google.com moritzf(a)google.com kh3195(a)columbia.edu tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org tf-rmm(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. 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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Canceled event: TF-A Tech Forum @ Thu 1 Jun 2023 11am - 12pm (EDT) (tf-rmm@lists.trustedfirmware.org)

by Karen Power

This event has been canceled. TF-A Tech Forum Thursday 1 Jun 2023 ⋅ 11am – 12pm Eastern Time - Toronto Topic: SVE Enablement in RMM for Realms. Presenter: Arunachalam GanapathyOverview: This discussion will cover the design and implementation details on how SVE and FP/AdvSIMD state of Non secure world and Realms are managed by RMM.=====================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 Don Harbin tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org tf-rmm(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. 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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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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Upcoming merge notification for RMM EL0 app support

by Soby Mathew

Hi Everyone As discussed in TF-A Tech Forum in January, RMM is introducing EL0 app support which is deprivileging parts of RMM to run at EL0. This is done mainly for security but it also enables other capabilities as discussed in the presentation : https://github.com/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/wiki/TFA-Tech-Forum-Presentations The patch stack can be accessed here : https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/+/36886/1 . This is complex functionality touching many parts of RMM. The merge is likely to affect outstanding patches as they would have merge conflict on rebase. We have identified further enhancements and hardening which can be done to improve the security and performance of the EL0 app framework . These will be taken up after the merge. We are hoping to merge this patch stack early next week so that any issues identified can be fixed up prior to TF-A v2.13 release planned for next month. The design document is still undergoing review and will be progressed after the merge of functionality. Best Regards Soby Mathew

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Re: TF-A Tech Forum - Jan 23rd 2025 - RMM design of EL0 applications support

by Olivier Deprez

+TF-RMM ML ________________________________ From: Google Calendar <calendar-notification(a)google.com> on behalf of Olivier Deprez <olivier.deprez(a)arm.com> Sent: 17 January 2025 08:46 To: tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org <tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org>; Olivier Deprez <Olivier.Deprez(a)arm.com> Subject: TF-A Tech Forum - Jan 23rd 2025 - RMM design of EL0 applications support Hi, On Jan 23rd 2025, in the TF-A Tech forum, Mate Toth-Pal and Soby Mathew will present the RMM design of EL0 applications support. The TF-A Tech forum is a regular open forum for anyone from the open source community to participate. Feel free to reach if you have a topic you'd want to present. It can be a design review with slides, walking through RFC patches, or more generic discussion around open source projects. Regards, Olivier. TF-A Tech Forum Thursday Jan 23, 2025 ⋅ 5pm – 6pm (Central European Time - Paris) 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/<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trustedfirmware.org%2Fmeetin…> Trusted Firmware is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://linaro-org.zoom.us/my/trustedfirmware?pwd=VktXcm5MNUUyVVM4R0k3ZUtvd…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Flinaro-org.zoom.us%2Fmy%2Ftruste…> One 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-free Meeting ID: 915 970 4974 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ad27hc6t7h<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fu%2Fad27hc6t7h&sa=D&us…> Guests tf-a(a)lists.trustedfirmware.org<mailto:tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org> IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

3 months, 4 weeks

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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/

5 months, 1 week

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Addition of mbedTLS as a submodule dependency to TF-A-Tests

by Soby Mathew

Hi Everyone, In order to facilitate development for Device Assignment tests for RME-DA, we have added MbedTLS repo as a submodule dependency to tf-a-tests. The merge commit can be found here : https://review.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-A/tf-a-tests/+/3e72cd… The patch is done in such a way that existing build of TF-A-Tests or Test run is not affected due to the additional dependency. Only tests which depend on MbedTLS will be affected in that they will either be skipped or fail at runtime due to the missing dependency. Also, the change allows to use the config `MBEDTLS_DIR` to point to a MbedTLS directory outside the tf-a-tests source tree. This aligns with the TF-A mechanism for MbedTLS dependancy in case the submodule mechanism is not preferred. We expect existing CI and testing infrastructure to be unaffected by this change. Please let us know if you have any comments. Best Regards Soby Mathew

5 months, 2 weeks

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Submodule update during build phase of the project

by Soby Mathew

Hi Everyone We are planning to change how TF-RMM clones and updates the submodule dependencies. The usual practice is to specify the `recursive` option to git clone of the project. This works well when the submodules themselves do not have dependencies. For some dependent repositories like libspdm, there are further dependencies like openssl, cmocka which are not used in the RMM context. Hence specifying the specifying the `recursive` option is not the ideal solution especially when RMM is deployed in Continuous integration solutions. The above issue was worked around in RMM by fetching libspdm within the build context but this was also not ideal as it kept the libspdm outside the git submodules framework and the git fetch was done every time the project was rebuilt. To solve this, we are proposing to move the management of the submodules into the build system and away from the user. Specifically, during configuration phase of the project, cmake will issue `git submodule update --init --depth 1`. This means that the user will not be responsible for syncing the submodules anymore and the build system will take of this. This also ties in with the patching method of the build system as a particular SHA can be ensured before the patch is applied. The patch can be found here : https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-RMM/tf-rmm/+/33512 Any rebase of the project which updates the submodules will now be transparently applied without the user having to update the submodules manually. We think that we will have more dependent submodules for TF-RMM in the future and it is better to script this within the build system. This change should not break any of the existing CI systems as it is backward compatible, but it may become a little inefficient if the `recursive` option is specified as there will be unnecessary git repositories fetched. Please let us know if any comments. Best Regards Soby Mathew

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