Attendees
Abhishek Pandit (Arm) Dan Handley (Arm) David Brown (Linaro) Kevin Townsend (Linaro) Joakim Bech (Linaro) Eric FInco (ST) Julius Werner (Google) Kangkang (Futurewei) Bill Fletcher (Linaro Community Projects) notes
AP: Reduce number of pending items.
Coding standard. Decided we could have a couple of experienced SW guys in charge of resolving any conflicts. Looking for a few volunteers who would clarify (for TF-M) the standard. EF: Timescale for closing this? AP: No specific timeline but feel just need a small group who have the judgement. They need prior experience with larger projects. Can send out an email after to close nominations. Also have action to close coding standards for platform (raised by ST). EF: Will discuss with Michel - believe ST can contribute something here.
Maintainers AP: Had long discussion last time for both TF-M and TF-A. How would people prefer to close this topic? Otherwise ask one of the TF-A and TF-M engineers from Arm to make a mailing list from a patch. Based on Dan’s comment.
Security incident response process DH: Stalling due to my time and discussion about Mbed TLS and Crypto projects moving into the project. Can’t deliver patches to a small audience for export control reasons. Still can have some sort of embargo on reporting issue. Fix has to be available to anyone. Want them to decouple fix from advisory. This is aligned to the link from JB - Google Project Zero. AP: First draft for open review - end of Jan? DH: Have a draft ready now. Should be able to send it next week. AP: Need to inform internal people at the same time. DH: More of a problem at the moment for TF-M that doesn’t have a process. OP-TEE etc should continue to follow their own process.
Regional differences for Crypto KK: Example of TPM - TPM 2.0 allowed regional differences. Previous TPM was banned in China. Should have an architecture that allows crypto implementation to plug in. DH: Hope that PSA crypto interface is suitable for anyone, even if the underlying implementations are not. Generally should not have export control issue. May be relying on feedback from Futurewei and other contributors to say what is permissable in China. KK: Suggest to review with Arm China. DH: Need to improve the process before start on any feature improvements.
Provisioning KT: Did not meet yet. Can put together an RFC by the end of the month. DB: seeing a conflict between the academic view - X.509 too heavy vs Data I/O saying everyone uses it even in the smallest devices. See what feedback we get. AP: Potentially raise it as a voting point, but have an open RFC discussion first.
Trusted Firmware Website AP: Have you browsed through the project website? See if there’s a need for improvement. Main home page doesn’t have much information. A lot of the material is via indirection (links?). TF-M needs more documentation. Also people can’t find things on Phabricator. JB: Always thought the font sizes are too big on all the project websites that Linaro is creating. Have a problem with page layout https://www.op-tee.org/security-advisories/ DB: Feel navigation text is too small and body text is too large. JB: On OP-TEE website we got rid of a lot of information and just pointed to readthedocs. BF: Also have a staging website staging.trustedfirmware.org AP: think first need some people to do some analysis first. DB: Left hand navigation would be easier than dropdowns with 2 or 3 items. KT: Think the documentation for TF-M has improved over the past couple of months. AP: Can find the docs via the dropdown. Discussing with Shebu, feel the experience for getting started can be improved. KT: People just want to know the git clone and CMake commands. DB: There’s navigation of the sections of the doc, and there’s navigation of the website. These are two different things. KT: Have to click on user guide from getting started. DB: Realise have to click on each level of the dropdown - make them just mouse-over. BF: Happy to collate data from a mailing list. AP: Shall we share a document? On Phabricator there is a Q&A page. Anyone object to mailing list? No. Action on Abhishek to kick off the thread
Next meeting 20th Feb