TF-A, TF-RMM & Hafnium Roadmaps
TF-A, TF-RMM & Hafnium Roadmaps
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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-RMMv01.0/v0.2.0 first releases (November 2022)
- Reference implementation of the Arm Realm Management Monitor (RMM) 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
- Last Author
- mcarlini
- Last Edited
- Feb 9 2023, 2:35 PM