1Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.5 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 139For a full description of functionality and implementation details, please 140see the `Firmware Design`_ and supporting documentation. The `Change Log`_ 141provides details of changes made since the last release. 142 143Platforms 144~~~~~~~~~ 145 146Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release has been tested on variants 147r0, r1 and r2 of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_. 148 149Various AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on the following Arm 150Fixed Virtual Platforms (`FVP`_) without shifted affinities, and that do not 151support threaded CPU cores (64-bit host machine only): 152 153NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, the FVP Version is 11.2 Build 11.2.33. 154 155- ``Foundation_Platform`` 156- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` (and also Version 9.0, Build 0.8.9005) 157- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A35x4`` 158- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A53x4`` 159- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4-A53x4`` 160- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4`` 161- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4-A53x4`` 162- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4`` 163- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4-A53x4`` 164- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4`` 165 166Additionally, various AArch64 builds were tested on the following Arm `FVP`_ s 167with shifted affinities, supporting threaded CPU cores (64-bit host machine 168only). 169 170- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4-A75x4`` (Version 0.0, build 0.0.4395) 171- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4`` (Version 0.0, build 0.0.4395) 172- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A75x4`` (Version 0.0, build 0.0.4395) 173- ``FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMv8A`` 174 175Various AArch32 builds of this release has been tested on the following Arm 176`FVP`_\ s without shifted affinities, and that do not support threaded CPU cores 177(64-bit host machine only): 178 179- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` 180- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4`` 181 182The Foundation FVP can be downloaded free of charge. The Base FVPs can be 183licensed from Arm. See the `Arm FVP website`_. 184 185All the above platforms have been tested with `Linaro Release 17.10`_. 186 187This release also contains the following platform support: 188 189- HiKey, HiKey960 and Poplar boards 190- MediaTek MT6795 and MT8173 SoCs 191- NVidia T132, T186 and T210 SoCs 192- QEMU emulator 193- Raspberry Pi 3 board 194- RockChip RK3328, RK3368 and RK3399 SoCs 195- Socionext UniPhier SoC family and SynQuacer SC2A11 SoCs 196- Texas Instruments K3 SoCs 197- Xilinx Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC 198 199Still to come 200~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 201 202- More platform support. 203 204- Improved dynamic configuration support. 205 206- Ongoing support for new architectural features, CPUs and System IP. 207 208- Ongoing support for new Arm system architecture specifications. 209 210- Ongoing security hardening, optimization and quality improvements. 211 212For a full list of detailed issues in the current code, please see the `Change 213Log`_ and the `GitHub issue tracker`_. 214 215Getting started 216--------------- 217 218Get the TF-A source code from `GitHub`_. 219 220See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to install, build and use 221the TF-A with the Arm `FVP`_\ s. 222 223See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how the TF-A works. 224 225See the `Porting Guide`_ as well for information about how to use this 226software on another Armv7-A or Armv8-A platform. 227 228See the `Contributing Guidelines`_ for information on how to contribute to this 229project and the `Acknowledgments`_ file for a list of contributors to the 230project. 231 232IRC channel 233~~~~~~~~~~~ 234 235Development discussion takes place on the #trusted-firmware-a channel 236on the Freenode IRC network. This is not an official support channel. 237If you have an issue to raise, please use the `GitHub issue tracker`_. 238 239Feedback and support 240~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 241 242Arm welcomes any feedback on TF-A. If you think you have found a security 243vulnerability, please report this using the process defined in the TF-A 244`Security Centre`_. For all other feedback, please use the 245`GitHub issue tracker`_. 246 247Arm licensees may contact Arm directly via their partner managers. 248 249-------------- 250 251*Copyright (c) 2013-2018, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.* 252 253.. _Armv7-A and Armv8-A: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile 254.. _Secure Monitor: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone/tee-smc.php 255.. _Power State Coordination Interface (PSCI): PSCI_ 256.. _PSCI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0022d/Power_State_Coordination_Interface_PDD_v1_1_DEN0022D.pdf 257.. _SMC Calling Convention: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028b/ARM_DEN0028B_SMC_Calling_Convention.pdf 258.. _System Control and Management Interface: SCMI_ 259.. _SCMI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0056a/DEN0056A_System_Control_and_Management_Interface.pdf 260.. _Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI): SDEI_ 261.. _SDEI: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf 262.. _Juno Arm Development Platform: http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/juno-arm-development-platform.php 263.. _Arm FVP website: FVP_ 264.. _FVP: https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms 265.. _Linaro Release 17.10: https://community.arm.com/dev-platforms/b/documents/posts/linaro-release-notes-deprecated#LinaroRelease17.10 266.. _OP-TEE Secure OS: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os 267.. _NVidia Trusted Little Kernel: http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=3rdparty/ote_partner/tlk.git;a=summary 268.. _Trusty Secure OS: https://source.android.com/security/trusty 269.. _GitHub: https://www.github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware 270.. _GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues 271.. _Security Centre: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/wiki/ARM-Trusted-Firmware-Security-Centre 272.. _license: ./license.rst 273.. _Contributing Guidelines: ./contributing.rst 274.. _Acknowledgments: ./acknowledgements.rst 275.. _Firmware Design: ./docs/firmware-design.rst 276.. _Change Log: ./docs/change-log.rst 277.. _User Guide: ./docs/user-guide.rst 278.. _Porting Guide: ./docs/porting-guide.rst 279.. _FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org 280.. _SCC: http://www.simple-cc.org/ 281