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authorPaul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>2019-03-25 16:45:23 +0000
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-Trusted Firmware-A - version 2.0
+Trusted Firmware-A - version 2.1
================================
Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) provides a reference implementation of secure world
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ such as:
Where possible, the code is designed for reuse or porting to other Armv7-A and
Armv8-A model and hardware platforms.
+This release provides a suitable starting point for productization of secure
+world boot and runtime firmware, in either the AArch32 or AArch64 execution
+states.
+
+Users are encouraged to do their own security validation, including penetration
+testing, on any secure world code derived from TF-A.
+
Arm will continue development in collaboration with interested parties to
provide a full reference implementation of Secure Monitor code and Arm standards
to the benefit of all developers working with Armv7-A and Armv8-A TrustZone
@@ -53,18 +60,8 @@ license text is included in those source files.
BSD-3-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under the
terms of both licenses.
-This release
-------------
-
-This release provides a suitable starting point for productization of secure
-world boot and runtime firmware, in either the AArch32 or AArch64 execution
-states.
-
-Users are encouraged to do their own security validation, including penetration
-testing, on any secure world code derived from TF-A.
-
Functionality
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------
- Initialization of the secure world, for example exception vectors, control
registers and interrupts for the platform.
@@ -136,17 +133,30 @@ Functionality
- Support for the GCC, LLVM and Arm Compiler 6 toolchains.
-- Support for combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image
- that may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image
- is stored in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be stored
+- Support for combining several libraries into a "romlib" image that may be
+ shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image is stored
+ in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be stored
in read-write memory, allowing for the library code to be patched.
+- A prototype implementation of a Secure Partition Manager (SPM) that is based
+ on the SPCI and SPRT specifications.
+
+- Support for ARMv8.3 pointer authentication in the normal and secure worlds.
+ The use of pointer authentication in the normal world is enabled whenever
+ architectural support is available, without the need for additional build
+ flags. Use of pointer authentication in the secure world remains an
+ experimental configuration at this time and requires the ``ENABLE_PAUTH``
+ build flag to be set.
+
+- Position-Independent Executable (PIE) support. Initially for BL31 only, with
+ further support to be added in a future release.
+
For a full description of functionality and implementation details, please
see the `Firmware Design`_ and supporting documentation. The `Change Log`_
provides details of changes made since the last release.
Platforms
-~~~~~~~~~
+---------
Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on r0, r1
and r2 variants of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_.
@@ -192,18 +202,23 @@ All the above platforms have been tested with `Linaro Release 18.04`_.
This release also contains the following platform support:
-- Allwinner sun50i_64 and sun50i_h6
+- Allwinner sun50i_a64 and sun50i_h6
- Amlogic Meson S905 (GXBB)
-- Arm SGI-575, RDN1Edge, RDE1Edge and SGM-775
-- Arm Neoverse N1 System Development Platform
+- Arm Juno Software Development Platform
+- Arm Neoverse N1 System Development Platform (N1SDP)
+- Arm Neoverse Reference Design N1 Edge (RD-N1-Edge) FVP
+- Arm Neoverse Reference Design E1 Edge (RD-E1-Edge) FVP
+- Arm SGI-575 and SGM-775
+- Arm Versatile Express FVP
- HiKey, HiKey960 and Poplar boards
+- Intel Stratix 10 SoC FPGA
- Marvell Armada 3700 and 8K
- MediaTek MT6795 and MT8173 SoCs
- NVIDIA T132, T186 and T210 SoCs
-- NXP QorIQ LS1043A, i.MX8MQ, i.MX8QX, i.MX8QM and i.MX7Solo WaRP7
+- NXP QorIQ LS1043A, i.MX8MM, i.MX8MQ, i.MX8QX, i.MX8QM and i.MX7Solo WaRP7
- QEMU
- Raspberry Pi 3
-- R-Car Generation 3
+- Renesas R-Car Generation 3
- RockChip RK3328, RK3368 and RK3399 SoCs
- Socionext UniPhier SoC family and SynQuacer SC2A11 SoCs
- STMicroelectronics STM32MP1
@@ -211,11 +226,15 @@ This release also contains the following platform support:
- Xilinx Versal and Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC
Still to come
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------
+
+- Support for additional platforms.
+
+- Refinements to Position Independent Executable (PIE) support.
-- More platform support.
+- Refinements to SPCI-compliant SPM implementation.
-- Position independent executable (PIE) support.
+- Documentation enhancements.
- Ongoing support for new architectural features, CPUs and System IP.
@@ -243,6 +262,12 @@ See the `Contributing Guidelines`_ for information on how to contribute to this
project and the `Acknowledgments`_ file for a list of contributors to the
project.
+Documentation contents
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The `Trusted Firmware-A Documentation Contents`_ page contains an overview of
+the documentation that is available, with links to facilitate easier browsing.
+
IRC channel
~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -261,7 +286,7 @@ vulnerability, please report this using the process defined in the TF-A
Arm licensees may contact Arm directly via their partner managers.
Security advisories
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------
- `Security Advisory TFV-1`_
- `Security Advisory TFV-2`_
@@ -313,3 +338,4 @@ Security advisories
.. _Security Advisory TFV-6: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-6.rst
.. _Security Advisory TFV-7: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-7.rst
.. _Security Advisory TFV-8: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-8.rst
+.. _Trusted Firmware-A Documentation Contents: ./docs/contents.rst