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Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.5
================================
New features
------------
- Added new firmware support to enable RAS (Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability) functionality.
- Secure Partition Manager (SPM): A Secure Partition is a software execution
environment instantiated in S-EL0 that can be used to implement simple
management and security services. The SPM is the firmware component that
is responsible for managing a Secure Partition.
- SDEI dispatcher: Support for interrupt-based SDEI events and all
interfaces as defined by the SDEI specification v1.0, see
`SDEI Specification`_
- Exception Handling Framework (EHF): Framework that allows dispatching of
EL3 interrupts to their registered handlers which are registered based on
their priorities. Facilitates firmware-first error handling policy where
asynchronous exceptions may be routed to EL3.
Integrated the TSPD with EHF.
- Updated PSCI support:
- Implemented PSCI v1.1 optional features `MEM_PROTECT` and `SYSTEM_RESET2`.
The supported PSCI version was updated to v1.1.
- Improved PSCI STAT timestamp collection, including moving accounting for
retention states to be inside the locks and fixing handling of wrap-around
when calculating residency in AArch32 execution state.
- Added optional handler for early suspend that executes when suspending to
a power-down state and with data caches enabled.
This may provide a performance improvement on platforms where it is safe
to perform some or all of the platform actions from `pwr_domain_suspend`
with the data caches enabled.
- Enabled build option, BL2_AT_EL3, for BL2 to allow execution at EL3 without
any dependency on TF BL1.
This allows platforms which already have a non-TF Boot ROM to directly load
and execute BL2 and subsequent BL stages without need for BL1. This was not
previously possible because BL2 executes at S-EL1 and cannot jump straight to
EL3.
- Implemented support for SMCCC v1.1, including `SMCCC_VERSION` and
`SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES`.
Additionally, added support for `SMCCC_VERSION` in PSCI features to enable
discovery of the SMCCC version via PSCI feature call.
- Added Dynamic Configuration framework which enables each of the boot loader
stages to be dynamically configured at runtime if required by the platform.
The boot loader stage may optionally specify a firmware configuration file
and/or hardware configuration file that can then be shared with the next boot
loader stage.
Introduced a new BL handover interface that essentially allows passing of 4
arguments between the different BL stages.
Updated cert_create and fip_tool to support the dynamic configuration files.
The COT also updated to support these new files.
- Code hygiene changes and alignment with MISRA guideline:
- Fix use of undefined macros.
- Achieved compliance with Mandatory MISRA coding rules.
- Achieved compliance for following Required MISRA rules for the default
build configurations on FVP and Juno platforms : 7.3, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and
8.8.
- Added support for Armv8.2-A architectural features:
- Updated translation table set-up to set the CnP (Common not Private) bit
for secure page tables so that multiple PEs in the same Inner Shareable
domain can use the same translation table entries for a given stage of
translation in a particular translation regime.
- Extended the supported values of ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.PARange to include the
52-bit Physical Address range.
- Added support for the Scalable Vector Extension to allow Normal world
software to access SVE functionality but disable access to SVE, SIMD and
floating point functionality from the Secure world in order to prevent
corruption of the Z-registers.
- Added support for Armv8.4-A architectural feature Activity Monitor Unit (AMU)
extensions.
In addition to the v8.4 architectural extension, AMU support on Cortex-A75
was implemented.
- Enhanced OP-TEE support to enable use of pageable OP-TEE image. The Arm
standard platforms are updated to load up to 3 images for OP-TEE; header,
pager image and paged image.
The chain of trust is extended to support the additional images.
- Enhancements to the translation table library:
- Introduced APIs to get and set the memory attributes of a region.
- Added support to manage both priviledge levels in translation regimes that
describe translations for 2 Exception levels, specifically the EL1&0
translation regime, and extended the memory map region attributes to
include specifying Non-privileged access.
- Added support to specify the granularity of the mappings of each region,
for instance a 2MB region can be specified to be mapped with 4KB page
tables instead of a 2MB block.
- Disabled the higher VA range to avoid unpredictable behaviour if there is
an attempt to access addresses in the higher VA range.
- Added helpers for Device and Normal memory MAIR encodings that align with
the Arm Architecture Reference Manual for Armv8-A (Arm DDI0487B.b).
- Code hygiene including fixing type length and signedness of constants,
refactoring of function to enable the MMU, removing all instances where
the virtual address space is hardcoded and added comments that document
alignment needed between memory attributes and attributes specified in
TCR_ELx.
- Updated GIC support:
- Introduce new APIs for GICv2 and GICv3 that provide the capability to
specify interrupt properties rather than list of interrupt numbers alone.
The Arm platforms and other upstream platforms are migrated to use
interrupt properties.
- Added helpers to save / restore the GICv3 context, specifically the
Distributor and Redistributor contexts and architectural parts of the ITS
power management. The Distributor and Redistributor helpers also support
the implementation-defined part of GIC-500 and GIC-600.
Updated the Arm FVP platform to save / restore the GICv3 context on system
suspend / resume as an example of how to use the helpers.
Introduced a new TZC secured DDR carve-out for use by Arm platforms for
storing EL3 runtime data such as the GICv3 register context.
- Added support for Armv7-A architecture via build option ARM_ARCH_MAJOR=7.
This includes following features:
- Updates GICv2 driver to manage GICv1 with security extensions.
- Software implementation for 32bit division.
- Enabled use of generic timer for platforms that do not set
ARM_CORTEX_Ax=yes.
- Support for Armv7-A Virtualization extensions [DDI0406C_C].
- Support for both Armv7-A platforms that only have 32-bit addressing and
Armv7-A platforms that support large page addressing.
- Included support for following Armv7 CPUs: Cortex-A12, Cortex-A17,
Cortex-A7, Cortex-A5, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A15.
- Added support in QEMU for Armv7-A/Cortex-A15.
- Enhancements to Firmware Update feature:
- Updated the FWU documentation to describe the additional images needed for
Firmware update, and how they are used for both the Juno platform and the
Arm FVP platforms.
- Enhancements to Trusted Board Boot feature:
- Added support to cert_create tool for RSA PKCS1# v1.5 and SHA384, SHA512
and SHA256.
- For Arm platforms added support to use ECDSA keys.
- Enhanced the mbed TLS wrapper layer to include support for both RSA and
ECDSA to enable runtime selection between RSA and ECDSA keys.
- Added support for secure interrupt handling in AArch32 sp_min, hardcoded to
only handle FIQs.
- Added support to allow a platform to load images from multiple boot sources,
for example from a second flash drive.
- Added a logging framework that allows platforms to reduce the logging level
at runtime and additionally the prefix string can be defined by the platform.
- Further improvements to register initialisation:
- Control register PMCR_EL0 / PMCR is set to prohibit cycle counting in the
secure world. This register is added to the list of registers that are
saved and restored during world switch.
- When EL3 is running in AArch32 execution state, the Non-secure version of
SCTLR is explicitly initialised during the warmboot flow rather than
relying on the hardware to set the correct reset values.
- Enhanced support for Arm platforms:
- Introduced driver for Shared-Data-Structure (SDS) framework which is used
for communication between SCP and the AP CPU, replacing Boot-Over_MHU
(BOM) protocol.
The Juno platform is migrated to use SDS with the SCMI support added in
v1.3 and is set as default.
The driver can be found in the plat/arm/css/drivers folder.
- Improved memory usage by only mapping TSP memory region when the TSPD has
been included in the build. This reduces the memory footprint and avoids
unnecessary memory being mapped.
- Updated support for multi-threading CPUs for FVP platforms - always check
the MT field in MPDIR and access the bit fields accordingly.
- Support building for platforms that model DynamIQ configuration by
implementing all CPUs in a single cluster.
- Improved nor flash driver, for instance clearing status registers before
sending commands. Driver can be found plat/arm/board/common folder.
- Enhancements to QEMU platform:
- Added support for TBB.
- Added support for using OP-TEE pageable image.
- Added support for LOAD_IMAGE_V2.
- Migrated to use translation table library v2 by default.
- Added support for SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA.
- Applied workarounds CVE-2017-5715 on Arm Cortex-A57, -A72, -A73 and -A75, and
for Armv7-A CPUs Cortex-A9, -A15 and -A17.
- Applied errata workaround for Arm Cortex-A57: 859972.
- Applied errata workaround for Arm Cortex-A72: 859971.
- Added support for Poplar 96Board platform.
- Added support for Raspberry Pi 3 platform.
- Added Call Frame Information (CFI) assembler directives to the vector entries
which enables debuggers to display the backtrace of functions that triggered
a synchronous abort.
- Added ability to build dtb.
- Added support for pre-tool (cert_create and fiptool) image processing
enabling compression of the image files before processing by cert_create and
fiptool.
This can reduce fip size and may also speed up loading of images. The image
verification will also get faster because certificates are generated based on
compressed images.
Imported zlib 1.2.11 to implement gunzip() for data compression.
- Enhancements to fiptool:
- Enabled the fiptool to be built using Visual Studio.
- Added padding bytes at the end of the last image in the fip to be
facilitate transfer by DMA.
Issues resolved since last release
----------------------------------
- TF-A can be built with optimisations disabled (-O0).
- Memory layout updated to enable Trusted Board Boot on Juno platform when
running TF-A in AArch32 execution mode (resolving `tf-issue#501`_).
Known Issues
------------
- DTB creation not supported when building on a windows host. This step in the
build process is skipped when running on a windows host.
Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.4
================================
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- Added version 2 of translation table library that allows different
translation tables to be modified by using different 'contexts'. Version 1
of the transalation table library only allows the current EL's translation
of the translation table library only allows the current EL's translation
tables to be modified.
Version 2 of the translation table also added support for dynamic
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- Trusted Board Boot currently does not work on Juno when running Trusted
Firmware in AArch32 execution state due to error when loading the sp_min to
memory becasue of lack of free space available. See `tf-issue#501`_ for more
memory because of lack of free space available. See `tf-issue#501`_ for more
details.
- The errata workaround for A53 errata 843419 is only available from binutils
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*Copyright (c) 2013-2018, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
.. _SDEI Specification: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf
.. _PSCI Integration Guide: psci-lib-integration-guide.rst
.. _Developer Certificate of Origin: ../dco.txt
.. _Contribution Guide: ../contributing.rst