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**WARNING:**
All dates are provisional and subject to change without notice. Items in Ongoing/Future section will be planned in detail and confirmed in due course.
**TF-Av2.9 release ( May 2023)**
The main highlights comprise :
Support for the 2021, 2022 Architecture extensions,
Dynamic feature detection,
Errata Management Firmware Interface against spec 1.0
FF-A v1.2 Spec Early Adoption, FF-A v1.1 Memory Sharing
Realm Support to leverage SVE hardware functionality
Architecture extensions support:
Support for PSCI OS initiated mode
Architecture support for FEAT_TCR2, Guarded Control Stack (FEAT_GCS), Config Register Support for FEAT_HCX
Save/Restore Support for FEAT_PIE/POE, FEAT_SME | SME2, FEAT_MPAM: runtime check
Added dynamic detection of architecture feature enablement
System registers access trap handler
Added RAS extension handling and crash reporting
Eighteen CPU Errata Mitigations for Cortex-A510, A-78, X2, Neoverse V1, N2 cores and GICv3 bug fixes
Errata Management Firmware Interface implementation supported for version 1.0 of the public specification
First release done solely relying on TrustedFirmware.org Open CI
Ethos-N NPU Driver Added support for Protected Firmware Setup
EL3 SPMC enhanced feature hardening (scan warning fixes, report execution stage in partition info etc)
Arm CCA support:
Support for Trusted Boot rooted into RSS RoT.
Support for PSA attestation scheme with Measured Boot rooted into RSS.
General improvements and hardening of the boot and attestation support.
Hardening efforts in the X.509 certificate parser, including a security fix (TFV-10, CVE-2022-47630)
TF-RMM Enhancements:
Refactoring Stage 1 Translation Table to better fit RMM Usage
PMU usage in Realms as per RMM v1.0 BET0 spec
Realm support to leverage SVE hardware functionality, if enabled
Improve dynamic config of RMM by adding support for DRAM info in RMM-EL3 interface
RMM Unit test support for granule and slot-buffer components
Mask MTE capability so that realms can see that MTE is not supported
Build improvements in RMM comprising : build times, decouple dependencies during build cycle and support multi-config builds
Hafnium SPM & FF-A enablement:
FF-A v1.2 Early Adoption
Implemented partition info get ABI using GP registers
Group0 secure interrupt handling delegation
Improved console log ABI
FF-A v1.1 Enhanced Support
Interrupt handling (S-EL0 partition signaling, allow a physical interrupt to be routed to a specified PE)
Memory sharing (support for FF-A backward compatibility, share/lend/donate memory to multiple borrowers, normal/secure fragmented memory sharing)
Power management (events relayed to the SPMC and removed limitations)
Indirect messaging (buffer synchronization and ownership transfer rules)
Hardened SP manifest memory regions boot time validation
CI migration to LLVM/clang 15.0.6
Removal of non-VHE build and test configurations
Added EL3 SPMC test configurations using the Hafnium’s CI infrastructure
TF-A Tests
support for 2021 Architecture Extensions
new tests for FEAT_RME and RMM Testing
support for FF-A v1.1 Feature testing
New cores/platforms support:
Arm TC3 CPU cores support
Power Domain support for N1SDP and Morello hardware
Allwinner T507 SoC support
Legacy support for Nvidia Tegra 210
MT8188 | MT8195 Platform support
Qemu : Enable Dynamic Feature Detection for Normal World
**TF-RMMv01.0/v0.2.0 first releases (November 2022)**
* Reference implementation of the Arm Realm Management Monitor (RMM) [[ https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0137/ | specification ]]
* Aligned against BETA revision of the specification
* Tested against TF-Av2.8
* All contributions accepted under DCO and BSD 3-Clause
**TF-Av2.8 release (November 2022)**
* Architecture extensions support:
** Added Pointer Authentication Extension helper support for QARMA3 (FEAT_PACQARMA3)
** Partial EL3 support for RNDR/RNDRRS (FEAT_RNG_TRAP)
** Added SVE fall back if SME not available (FEAT_SME)
** Support full SVE vector Length (FEAT_SVE)
** Added FEAT_BRBE and FEAT_TRBE under feature detection mechanism
* Added support for DRTM (Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement) Phase 1 (Standard services, Complete DMA protection)
* Various Errata Mitigations (Cortex-A710, A510, X3, X2, A76, A77, A78C, Neoverse N1, N2, GIC-600)
* Improved SVE support (as per SMCCCv1.3)
* Ethos-N Driver support for SMMU
* EL3 SPMC feature hardening
* FEAT_RME:
** Bootflow chain of trust support for AEM FVP
** Further developments to support TF-RMM upstreaming
** Tested interop against TF-RMM v0.2.0
* TF-A Tests support for 4 new platforms (N1SDP, RD-N2, RD-N2-Cfg1, RD-V1)
* TF-A Tests FEAT_RME Realm Payload Testing
* TF-A Tests FF-A v1.1 Secure interrupts Testing
* Hafnium SPM & FF-A enablement:
** FF-A v1.1 additions (Interrupt handling, Memory sharing, Framework notifications and indirect messaging)
** Added FF-A console log ABI, support for GICv3.1 extended INTID ranges
** Enhanced SVE by supporting up to the maximum vector length
** FF-A v1.0 ACS test suite integration in Open CI.
**Ongoing**
* MISRA scan (Eclair tool) integration into OpenCI
* Arm 2021 Arch. extensions (v8.8) completion: FEAT_HPMN0, FEAT_RNG_TRAP, TF-A-Tests for all features
* Arm 2022 Arch. extensions (v8.9) investigation
* Errata ABI spec support
* mbedTLS v3.0 upgrade
* PSA Crypto APIs support
* S-EL2 Hafnium/ SPM / FF-A:
** S-EL2 & EL3 SPM features alignment.
** SME NS regs save/restore
** VHE S-EL0 use-cases support
* TF-RMM:
** SVE support
**Future**
* FWU Live Activation
* FW Handoff spec
* S-EL2 Hafnium/ SPM / FF-A:
** FF-A SMMU guidance
** FF-A Memory sharing on RME
** SPM + RME extension support
* Arm DRTM spec support Phase 2: Other SMCs, region-based DMA protection
* TF-RMM enablement:
** EAC spec alignment
** RAS & FWU review for 4 worlds
** SME support
** FEAT_LPA2 support
** Device Assignment support
**PREVIOUS RELEASES**
**TF-A-v2.7 Release features**
* Architecture support:
** Armv9.2 Branch Record Buffer Extension (FEAT_BRBE) for Non-secure World support
** Armv8.7 Statistical Profiling Extension (FEAT_SPEV1P2) TF-A-Tests support
** Armv8.7 WFE/WFI instructions with Timeout (FEAT_WFxT), Increased precision of Reciprocal Estimate and Reciprocal Square Root Estimate (FEAT_RPRES) & Alternate Floating-Point (FEAT_AFP) TF-A-Tests support
* *Armv8.3 Extended Cache Index (FEAT_CCIDX) support
* Spectre Branch History Buffer (BHB) Mitigations
* Various Software workarounds for Errata affecting Cortex-A710, A510, A78, X2
* New Architectural Features Detection Mechanism (Experimental Feature)
* SMMU Granule Protection Checks (GPC) for Secure and Non-secure world transactions
* FF-A & SPM:
** Secure Partition Manager (SPM) operating at EL3 (Experimental Feature)
** Hafnium: Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) stack tagging support at S-EL2
** Hafnium FF-A implementation:
** FF-A v1.1 EAC0: Boot protocol, Setup and discovery, Notifications
** FF-A v1.1 Beta0: Interrupt handling improvements
** FF-A v1.0 compliance fixes
**TF-A-v2.6 Release features**
* Armv9 features support:
** Realm Management Extension (FEAT_RME): first prototype implementation (ENABLE_RME)
** Scalable Matrix Extension (FEAT_SME) enabled for Normal world use
** Trace Buffer Extension (FEAT_TRBE): enable access to trace buffer control registers from Normal world
** Embedded Trace Extension (FEAT_ETE, FEAT_ETEv1p1): enabled for Normal world use
* Armv8 features support:
** Activity Monitors Extension (FEAT_AMU): enable per-core AMU auxiliary counters
** Support for the HCRX_EL2 register (FEAT_HCX)
** Scalable Vector Extension (FEAT_SVE): enabled for the Secure world
** Self-hosted Trace Extensions (FEAT_TRF)
* Support for the Arm Firmware Update specification
* Hafnium SPM:
** Arm FF-A v1.1 notifications support
** Arm FF-A v1.1 interrupt handling (Hafnium para-virtualized interface)
** S-EL0 partitions support through VHE architecture extension in the SW
** Save/restore NW SVE live state on world switches
** SPs to use FP/SIMD while NW uses SVE/SIMD/FP on the same core
** Updated toolchain to LLVM/Clang 12
** Published new SPMC threat model
**TF-A-v2.5 Release features**
* TF-A Public Threat Model published
* Armv8.7: FEAT_MTE3, FEAT_PAN3
* Armv8.6: FEAT_AMUv1p1, FEAT_MTPMU
* Armv8.5: Speculation Barrier (SB) for non-Armv8.5 platforms starting from Armv8.0 (FEAT_SB)
* Helper functions for Random number generator registers (FEAT_RNG)
* Support for TRNG firmware interface service
* SiP service to configure Ethos-N NPU
* GPT Image Support aligned to Firmware update specification
* S-EL2 Hafnium/FF-A:
** PAuth & BTI support
** SMMUv3.2 S-EL2 driver for stage 2 translation
** FF-A Non-secure interrupt handling
** FF-A Power management support at boot time
** FF-A Direct message interfaces & Memory sharing interfaces
** Added SPMC support to Hafnium CI
** Save/restore of Normal world FP/NEON/SIMD state