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