| Trusted Firmware-A - version 2.1 |
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| Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) provides a reference implementation of secure world |
| software for `Armv7-A and Armv8-A`_, including a `Secure Monitor`_ executing |
| at Exception Level 3 (EL3). It implements various Arm interface standards, |
| such as: |
| |
| - The `Power State Coordination Interface (PSCI)`_ |
| - `Trusted Board Boot Requirements CLIENT (TBBR-CLIENT)`_ |
| - `SMC Calling Convention`_ |
| - `System Control and Management Interface (SCMI)`_ |
| - `Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI)`_ |
| |
| 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 |
| technology. |
| |
| Documentation contents |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| The `Trusted Firmware-A Documentation Contents`_ page contains an overview of |
| the documentation that is available, with links to facilitate easier browsing. |
| |
| License |
| ------- |
| |
| The software is provided under a BSD-3-Clause `license`_. Contributions to this |
| project are accepted under the same license with developer sign-off as |
| described in the `Contributing Guidelines`_. |
| |
| This project contains code from other projects as listed below. The original |
| license text is included in those source files. |
| |
| - The libc source code is derived from `FreeBSD`_ and `SCC`_. FreeBSD uses |
| various BSD licenses, including BSD-3-Clause and BSD-2-Clause. The SCC code |
| is used under the BSD-3-Clause license with the author's permission. |
| |
| - The libfdt source code is disjunctively dual licensed |
| (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of |
| the BSD-2-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under |
| the terms of both licenses. |
| |
| - The LLVM compiler-rt source code is disjunctively dual licensed |
| (NCSA OR MIT). It is used by this project under the terms of the NCSA |
| license (also known as the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License), |
| which is a permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause. Any |
| contributions to this code must be made under the terms of both licenses. |
| |
| - The zlib source code is licensed under the Zlib license, which is a |
| permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause. |
| |
| - Some STMicroelectronics platform source code is disjunctively dual licensed |
| (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of the |
| BSD-3-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under the |
| terms of both licenses. |
| |
| Functionality |
| ------------- |
| |
| - Initialization of the secure world, for example exception vectors, control |
| registers and interrupts for the platform. |
| |
| - Library support for CPU specific reset and power down sequences. This |
| includes support for errata workarounds and the latest Arm DynamIQ CPUs. |
| |
| - Drivers to enable standard initialization of Arm System IP, for example |
| Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC), Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI), |
| Cache Coherent Network (CCN), Network Interconnect (NIC) and TrustZone |
| Controller (TZC). |
| |
| - A generic `SCMI`_ driver to interface with conforming power controllers, for |
| example the Arm System Control Processor (SCP). |
| |
| - SMC (Secure Monitor Call) handling, conforming to the `SMC Calling |
| Convention`_ using an EL3 runtime services framework. |
| |
| - `PSCI`_ library support for CPU, cluster and system power management |
| use-cases. |
| This library is pre-integrated with the AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software, and |
| is also suitable for integration with other AArch32 EL3 Runtime Software, |
| for example an AArch32 Secure OS. |
| |
| - A minimal AArch32 Secure Payload (SP\_MIN) to demonstrate `PSCI`_ library |
| integration with AArch32 EL3 Runtime Software. |
| |
| - Secure Monitor library code such as world switching, EL1 context management |
| and interrupt routing. |
| When a Secure-EL1 Payload (SP) is present, for example a Secure OS, the |
| AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software must be integrated with a Secure Payload |
| Dispatcher (SPD) component to customize the interaction with the SP. |
| |
| - A Test SP and SPD to demonstrate AArch64 Secure Monitor functionality and SP |
| interaction with PSCI. |
| |
| - SPDs for the `OP-TEE Secure OS`_, `NVIDIA Trusted Little Kernel`_ |
| and `Trusty Secure OS`_. |
| |
| - A Trusted Board Boot implementation, conforming to all mandatory TBBR |
| requirements. This includes image authentication, Firmware Update (or |
| recovery mode), and packaging of the various firmware images into a |
| Firmware Image Package (FIP). |
| |
| - Pre-integration of TBB with the Arm CryptoCell product, to take advantage of |
| its hardware Root of Trust and crypto acceleration services. |
| |
| - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) functionality, including |
| |
| - A Secure Partition Manager (SPM) to manage Secure Partitions in |
| Secure-EL0, which can be used to implement simple management and |
| security services. |
| |
| - An SDEI dispatcher to route interrupt-based SDEI events. |
| |
| - An Exception Handling Framework (EHF) that allows dispatching of EL3 |
| interrupts to their registered handlers, to facilitate firmware-first |
| error handling. |
| |
| - A dynamic configuration framework that enables each of the firmware images |
| to be configured at runtime if required by the platform. It also enables |
| loading of a hardware configuration (for example, a kernel device tree) |
| as part of the FIP, to be passed through the firmware stages. |
| |
| - Support for alternative boot flows, for example to support platforms where |
| the EL3 Runtime Software is loaded using other firmware or a separate |
| secure system processor, or where a non-TF-A ROM expects BL2 to be loaded |
| at EL3. |
| |
| - Support for the GCC, LLVM and Arm Compiler 6 toolchains. |
| |
| - 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 Alpha 1 and SPRT draft 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`_. |
| |
| The latest version of the AArch64 build of TF-A has been tested on the following |
| Arm FVPs without shifted affinities, and that do not support threaded CPU cores |
| (64-bit host machine only). |
| |
| The FVP models used are Version 11.6 Build 45, unless otherwise stated. |
| |
| - ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A-AEMv8A-AEMv8A-CCN502`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMv8A`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A35x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A53x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4+Cortex-A75x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x1-A53x1`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x2-A53x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4-A53x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4-A53x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4-A53x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A75x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A76x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A76AEx4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A76AEx8`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Neoverse-N1x4`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Deimos`` |
| - ``FVP_CSS_SGI-575`` (Version 11.3 build 42) |
| - ``FVP_CSS_SGM-775`` (Version 11.3 build 42) |
| - ``FVP_RD_E1Edge`` (Version 11.3 build 42) |
| - ``FVP_RD_N1Edge`` |
| - ``Foundation_Platform`` |
| |
| The latest version of the AArch32 build of TF-A has been tested on the following |
| Arm FVPs without shifted affinities, and that do not support threaded CPU cores |
| (64-bit host machine only). |
| |
| - ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` |
| - ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4`` |
| |
| NOTE: The ``FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMv8A`` FVP only supports shifted affinities. |
| |
| The Foundation FVP can be downloaded free of charge. The Base FVPs can be |
| licensed from Arm. See the `Arm FVP website`_. |
| |
| All the above platforms have been tested with `Linaro Release 18.04`_. |
| |
| This release also contains the following platform support: |
| |
| - Allwinner sun50i_a64 and sun50i_h6 |
| - Amlogic Meson S905 (GXBB) |
| - Amlogic Meson S905x (GXL) |
| - 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.MX8MM, i.MX8MQ, i.MX8QX, i.MX8QM and i.MX7Solo WaRP7 |
| - QEMU |
| - Raspberry Pi 3 |
| - Renesas R-Car Generation 3 |
| - RockChip RK3328, RK3368 and RK3399 SoCs |
| - Socionext UniPhier SoC family and SynQuacer SC2A11 SoCs |
| - STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 |
| - Texas Instruments K3 SoCs |
| - Xilinx Versal and Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC |
| |
| Still to come |
| ------------- |
| |
| - Support for additional platforms. |
| |
| - Refinements to Position Independent Executable (PIE) support. |
| |
| - Refinements to the SPCI-based SPM implementation as the draft SPCI and SPRT |
| specifications continue to evolve. |
| |
| - Documentation enhancements. |
| |
| - Ongoing support for new architectural features, CPUs and System IP. |
| |
| - Ongoing support for new Arm system architecture specifications. |
| |
| - Ongoing security hardening, optimization and quality improvements. |
| |
| For a full list of detailed issues in the current code, please see the `Change |
| Log`_ and the `issue tracker`_. |
| |
| Getting started |
| --------------- |
| |
| See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to download, install, build and |
| use TF-A with the Arm `FVP`_\ s. |
| |
| See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how TF-A works. |
| |
| See the `Porting Guide`_ as well for information about how to use this |
| software on another Armv7-A or Armv8-A platform. |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| Contact us |
| ~~~~~~~~~~ |
| |
| We welcome any feedback on TF-A. If you think you have found a security |
| vulnerability, please report this using the process defined in the TF-A |
| `Security Center`_. For all other feedback, you can use either the |
| `issue tracker`_ or our `mailing list`_. |
| |
| Arm licensees may contact Arm directly via their partner managers. |
| |
| Security advisories |
| ------------------- |
| |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-1`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-2`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-3`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-4`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-5`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-6`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-7`_ |
| - `Security Advisory TFV-8`_ |
| |
| |
| -------------- |
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| *Copyright (c) 2013-2019, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.* |
| |
| .. _Armv7-A and Armv8-A: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile |
| .. _Secure Monitor: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone/tee-smc.php |
| .. _Power State Coordination Interface (PSCI): PSCI_ |
| .. _PSCI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0022d/Power_State_Coordination_Interface_PDD_v1_1_DEN0022D.pdf |
| .. _Trusted Board Boot Requirements CLIENT (TBBR-CLIENT): https://developer.arm.com/docs/den0006/latest/trusted-board-boot-requirements-client-tbbr-client-armv8-a |
| .. _SMC Calling Convention: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028b/ARM_DEN0028B_SMC_Calling_Convention.pdf |
| .. _System Control and Management Interface (SCMI): SCMI_ |
| .. _SCMI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0056a/DEN0056A_System_Control_and_Management_Interface.pdf |
| .. _Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI): SDEI_ |
| .. _SDEI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf |
| .. _Juno Arm Development Platform: http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/juno-arm-development-platform.php |
| .. _Arm FVP website: FVP_ |
| .. _FVP: https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms |
| .. _Linaro Release 18.04: https://community.arm.com/dev-platforms/b/documents/posts/linaro-release-notes-deprecated#LinaroRelease18.04 |
| .. _OP-TEE Secure OS: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os |
| .. _NVIDIA Trusted Little Kernel: http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=3rdparty/ote_partner/tlk.git;a=summary |
| .. _Trusty Secure OS: https://source.android.com/security/trusty |
| .. _trustedfirmware.org: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git |
| .. _issue tracker: https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/project/board/1/ |
| .. _mailing list: https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tf-a |
| .. _Security Center: ./docs/process/security.rst |
| .. _license: ./license.rst |
| .. _Contributing Guidelines: ./docs/process/contributing.rst |
| .. _Acknowledgments: ./docs/acknowledgements.rst |
| .. _Firmware Design: ./docs/design/firmware-design.rst |
| .. _Change Log: ./docs/change-log.rst |
| .. _User Guide: ./docs/getting_started/user-guide.rst |
| .. _Porting Guide: ./docs/getting_started/porting-guide.rst |
| .. _FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org |
| .. _SCC: http://www.simple-cc.org/ |
| .. _Security Advisory TFV-1: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-1.rst |
| .. _Security Advisory TFV-2: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-2.rst |
| .. _Security Advisory TFV-3: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-3.rst |
| .. _Security Advisory TFV-4: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-4.rst |
| .. _Security Advisory TFV-5: ./docs/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-5.rst |
| .. _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 |