1Trusted Firmware-A - version 2.0 2================================ 3 4Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) provides a reference implementation of secure world 5software for `Armv7-A and Armv8-A`_, including a `Secure Monitor`_ executing 6at Exception Level 3 (EL3). It implements various Arm interface standards, 7such as: 8 9- The `Power State Coordination Interface (PSCI)`_ 10- Trusted Board Boot Requirements (TBBR, Arm DEN0006C-1) 11- `SMC Calling Convention`_ 12- `System Control and Management Interface`_ 13- `Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI)`_ 14 15Where possible, the code is designed for reuse or porting to other Armv7-A and 16Armv8-A model and hardware platforms. 17 18Arm will continue development in collaboration with interested parties to 19provide a full reference implementation of Secure Monitor code and Arm standards 20to the benefit of all developers working with Armv7-A and Armv8-A TrustZone 21technology. 22 23License 24------- 25 26The software is provided under a BSD-3-Clause `license`_. Contributions to this 27project are accepted under the same license with developer sign-off as 28described in the `Contributing Guidelines`_. 29 30This project contains code from other projects as listed below. The original 31license text is included in those source files. 32 33- The libc source code is derived from `FreeBSD`_ and `SCC`_. FreeBSD uses 34 various BSD licenses, including BSD-3-Clause and BSD-2-Clause. The SCC code 35 is used under the BSD-3-Clause license with the author's permission. 36 37- The libfdt source code is disjunctively dual licensed 38 (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of 39 the BSD-2-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under 40 the terms of both licenses. 41 42- The LLVM compiler-rt source code is disjunctively dual licensed 43 (NCSA OR MIT). It is used by this project under the terms of the NCSA 44 license (also known as the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License), 45 which is a permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause. Any 46 contributions to this code must be made under the terms of both licenses. 47 48- The zlib source code is licensed under the Zlib license, which is a 49 permissive license compatible with BSD-3-Clause. 50 51- Some STMicroelectronics platform source code is disjunctively dual licensed 52 (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause). It is used by this project under the terms of the 53 BSD-3-Clause license. Any contributions to this code must be made under the 54 terms of both licenses. 55 56This release 57------------ 58 59This release provides a suitable starting point for productization of secure 60world boot and runtime firmware, in either the AArch32 or AArch64 execution 61state. 62 63Users are encouraged to do their own security validation, including penetration 64testing, on any secure world code derived from TF-A. 65 66Functionality 67~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 68 69- Initialization of the secure world, for example exception vectors, control 70 registers and interrupts for the platform. 71 72- Library support for CPU specific reset and power down sequences. This 73 includes support for errata workarounds and the latest Arm DynamIQ CPUs. 74 75- Drivers to enable standard initialization of Arm System IP, for example 76 Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC), Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI), 77 Cache Coherent Network (CCN), Network Interconnect (NIC) and TrustZone 78 Controller (TZC). 79 80- A generic `SCMI`_ driver to interface with conforming power controllers, for 81 example the Arm System Control Processor (SCP). 82 83- SMC (Secure Monitor Call) handling, conforming to the `SMC Calling 84 Convention`_ using an EL3 runtime services framework. 85 86- `PSCI`_ library support for CPU, cluster and system power management 87 use-cases. 88 This library is pre-integrated with the AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software, and 89 is also suitable for integration with other AArch32 EL3 Runtime Software, 90 for example an AArch32 Secure OS. 91 92- A minimal AArch32 Secure Payload (SP\_MIN) to demonstrate `PSCI`_ library 93 integration with AArch32 EL3 Runtime Software. 94 95- Secure Monitor library code such as world switching, EL1 context management 96 and interrupt routing. 97 When a Secure-EL1 Payload (SP) is present, for example a Secure OS, the 98 AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software must be integrated with a dispatcher component 99 (SPD) to customize the interaction with the SP. 100 101- A Test SP/SPD to demonstrate AArch64 Secure Monitor functionality and SP 102 interaction with PSCI. 103 104- SPDs for the `OP-TEE Secure OS`_, `NVidia Trusted Little Kernel`_ 105 and `Trusty Secure OS`_. 106 107- A Trusted Board Boot implementation, conforming to all mandatory TBBR 108 requirements. This includes image authentication, Firmware Update (or 109 recovery mode), and packaging of the various firmware images into a 110 Firmware Image Package (FIP). 111 112- Pre-integration of TBB with the Arm CryptoCell product, to take advantage of 113 its hardware Root of Trust and crypto acceleration services. 114 115- Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) functionality, including 116 117 - A Secure Partition Manager (SPM) to manage Secure Partitions in 118 Secure-EL0, which can be used to implement simple management and 119 security services. 120 121 - An SDEI dispatcher to route interrupt-based SDEI events. 122 123 - An Exception Handling Framework (EHF) that allows dispatching of EL3 124 interrupts to their registered handlers, to facilitate firmware-first 125 error handling. 126 127- A dynamic configuration framework that enables each of the firmware images 128 to be configured at runtime if required by the platform. It also enables 129 loading of a hardware configuration (for example, a kernel device tree) 130 as part of the FIP, to be passed through the firmware stages. 131 132- Support for alternative boot flows, for example to support platforms where 133 the EL3 Runtime Software is loaded using other firmware or a separate 134 secure system processor, or where a non-TF-A ROM expects BL2 to be loaded 135 at EL3. 136 137- Support for the GCC, LLVM and Arm Compiler 6 toolchains. 138 139- Support combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image, that 140 may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image 141 is stored in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be stored 142 in read-write memory, allowing for the library code to be patched. 143 144For a full description of functionality and implementation details, please 145see the `Firmware Design`_ and supporting documentation. The `Change Log`_ 146provides details of changes made since the last release. 147 148Platforms 149~~~~~~~~~ 150 151Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release has been tested on variants 152r0, r1 and r2 of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_. 153 154Various AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on the following Arm 155Fixed Virtual Platforms (`FVP`_) without shifted affinities that do not 156support threaded CPU cores (64-bit host machine only): 157 158NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, the model version is Version 11.4 Build 37. 159 160- ``FVP_Base_Aresx4`` 161- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` 162- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A-AEMv8A-AEMv8A-CCN502`` 163- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` 164- ``FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMv8A`` 165- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4`` 166- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A35x4`` 167- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A53x4`` 168- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4+Cortex-A75x4`` 169- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4`` 170- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4-A53x4`` 171- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4`` 172- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4-A53x4`` 173- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4`` 174- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4-A53x4`` 175- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4`` 176- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A75x4`` 177- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A76x4`` 178- ``FVP_CSS_SGI-575`` (Version 11.3 build 40) 179- ``Foundation_Platform`` 180 181The latest version of the AArch32 build of TF-A has been tested on the following 182Arm FVPs without shifted affinities that do not support threaded CPU cores 183(64-bit host machine only). 184 185- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` 186- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4`` 187 188The Foundation FVP can be downloaded free of charge. The Base FVPs can be 189licensed from Arm. See the `Arm FVP website`_. 190 191All the above platforms have been tested with `Linaro Release 18.04`_. 192 193This release also contains the following platform support: 194 195- Allwinner sun50i_64 and sun50i_h6 196- Amlogic Meson S905 (GXBB) 197- ARM SGI-575 and SGM-775 198- HiKey, HiKey960 and Poplar boards 199- Marvell Armada 8K 200- MediaTek MT6795 and MT8173 SoCs 201- NVidia T132, T186 and T210 SoCs 202- NXP QorIQ LS1043A, i.MX8QX, i.MX8QM and i.MX7Solo WaRP7 203- QEMU emulator 204- Raspberry Pi 3 board 205- RockChip RK3328, RK3368 and RK3399 SoCs 206- Socionext UniPhier SoC family and SynQuacer SC2A11 SoCs 207- STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 208- Texas Instruments K3 SoCs 209- Xilinx Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC 210 211Still to come 212~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 213 214- More platform support. 215 216- Position independent executable (PIE) support. 217 218- Ongoing support for new architectural features, CPUs and System IP. 219 220- Ongoing support for new Arm system architecture specifications. 221 222- Ongoing security hardening, optimization and quality improvements. 223 224For a full list of detailed issues in the current code, please see the `Change 225Log`_ and the `GitHub issue tracker`_. 226 227Getting started 228--------------- 229 230Get the TF-A source code from `GitHub`_. 231 232See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to install, build and use 233the TF-A with the Arm `FVP`_\ s. 234 235See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how the TF-A works. 236 237See the `Porting Guide`_ as well for information about how to use this 238software on another Armv7-A or Armv8-A platform. 239 240See the `Contributing Guidelines`_ for information on how to contribute to this 241project and the `Acknowledgments`_ file for a list of contributors to the 242project. 243 244IRC channel 245~~~~~~~~~~~ 246 247Development discussion takes place on the #trusted-firmware-a channel 248on the Freenode IRC network. This is not an official support channel. 249If you have an issue to raise, please use the `GitHub issue tracker`_. 250 251Feedback and support 252~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 253 254Arm welcomes any feedback on TF-A. If you think you have found a security 255vulnerability, please report this using the process defined in the TF-A 256`Security Centre`_. For all other feedback, please use the 257`GitHub issue tracker`_. 258 259Arm licensees may contact Arm directly via their partner managers. 260 261-------------- 262 263*Copyright (c) 2013-2018, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.* 264 265.. _Armv7-A and Armv8-A: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile 266.. _Secure Monitor: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone/tee-smc.php 267.. _Power State Coordination Interface (PSCI): PSCI_ 268.. _PSCI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0022d/Power_State_Coordination_Interface_PDD_v1_1_DEN0022D.pdf 269.. _SMC Calling Convention: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028b/ARM_DEN0028B_SMC_Calling_Convention.pdf 270.. _System Control and Management Interface: SCMI_ 271.. _SCMI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0056a/DEN0056A_System_Control_and_Management_Interface.pdf 272.. _Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI): SDEI_ 273.. _SDEI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf 274.. _Juno Arm Development Platform: http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/juno-arm-development-platform.php 275.. _Arm FVP website: FVP_ 276.. _FVP: https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms 277.. _Linaro Release 18.04: https://community.arm.com/dev-platforms/b/documents/posts/linaro-release-notes-deprecated#LinaroRelease18.04 278.. _OP-TEE Secure OS: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os 279.. _NVidia Trusted Little Kernel: http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=3rdparty/ote_partner/tlk.git;a=summary 280.. _Trusty Secure OS: https://source.android.com/security/trusty 281.. _GitHub: https://www.github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware 282.. _GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues 283.. _Security Centre: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/wiki/ARM-Trusted-Firmware-Security-Centre 284.. _license: ./license.rst 285.. _Contributing Guidelines: ./contributing.rst 286.. _Acknowledgments: ./acknowledgements.rst 287.. _Firmware Design: ./docs/firmware-design.rst 288.. _Change Log: ./docs/change-log.rst 289.. _User Guide: ./docs/user-guide.rst 290.. _Porting Guide: ./docs/porting-guide.rst 291.. _FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org 292.. _SCC: http://www.simple-cc.org/ 293