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Arm Trusted Firmware
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Merge "docs: Update changelog for v2.4 release" into integration
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@@ -4,6 +4,560 @@ Change Log & Release Notes
This document contains a summary of the new features, changes, fixes and known
issues in each release of Trusted Firmware-A.
Version 2.4
-----------
New Features
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Architecture support
- Armv8.6-A
- Added support for Armv8.6 Enhanced Counter Virtualization (ECV)
- Added support for Armv8.6 Fine Grained Traps (FGT)
- Added support for Armv8.6 WFE trap delays
- Bootloader images
- Added support for Measured Boot
- Build System
- Added build option ``COT_DESC_IN_DTB`` to create Chain of Trust at runtime
- Added build option ``OPENSSL_DIR`` to direct tools to OpenSSL libraries
- Added build option ``RAS_TRAP_LOWER_EL_ERR_ACCESS`` to enable trapping RAS
register accesses from EL1/EL2 to EL3
- Extended build option ``BRANCH_PROTECTION`` to support branch target
identification
- Common components
- Added support for exporting CPU nodes to the device tree
- Added support for single and dual-root Chains of Trust in secure
partitions
- Drivers
- Added Broadcom RNG driver
- Added Marvell ``mg_conf_cm3`` driver
- Added System Control and Management Interface (SCMI) driver
- Added STMicroelectronics ETZPC driver
- Arm GICv3
- Added support for detecting topology at runtime
- Dual Root
- Added support for platform certificates
- Marvell Cache LLC
- Added support for mapping the entire LLC into SRAM
- Marvell CCU
- Added workaround for erratum 3033912
- Marvell CP110 COMPHY
- Added support for SATA COMPHY polarity inversion
- Added support for USB COMPHY polarity inversion
- Added workaround for erratum IPCE_COMPHY-1353
- STM32MP1 Clocks
- Added ``RTC`` as a gateable clock
- Added support for shifted clock selector bit masks
- Added support for using additional clocks as parents
- Libraries
- C standard library
- Added support for hexadecimal and pointer format specifiers in
``snprint()``
- Added assembly alternatives for various library functions
- CPU support
- Arm Cortex-A53
- Added workaround for erratum 1530924
- Arm Cortex-A55
- Added workaround for erratum 1530923
- Arm Cortex-A57
- Added workaround for erratum 1319537
- Arm Cortex-A76
- Added workaround for erratum 1165522
- Added workaround for erratum 1791580
- Added workaround for erratum 1868343
- Arm Cortex-A72
- Added workaround for erratum 1319367
- Arm Cortex-A77
- Added workaround for erratum 1508412
- Added workaround for erratum 1800714
- Added workaround for erratum 1925769
- Arm Neoverse N1
- Added workaround for erratum 1868343
- EL3 Runtime
- Added support for saving/restoring registers related to nested
virtualization in EL2 context switches if the architecture supports it
- FCONF
- Added support for Measured Boot
- Added support for populating Chain of Trust properties
- Added support for loading the ``fw_config`` image
- Measured Boot
- Added support for event logging
- Platforms
- Added support for Arm Morello
- Added support for Arm TC0
- Added support for iEi PUZZLE-M801
- Added support for Marvell OCTEON TX2 T9130
- Added support for MediaTek MT8192
- Added support for NXP i.MX 8M Nano
- Added support for NXP i.MX 8M Plus
- Added support for QTI CHIP SC7180
- Added support for STM32MP151F
- Added support for STM32MP153F
- Added support for STM32MP157F
- Added support for STM32MP151D
- Added support for STM32MP153D
- Added support for STM32MP157D
- Arm
- Added support for platform-owned SPs
- Added support for resetting to BL31
- Arm FPGA
- Added support for Klein
- Added support for Matterhorn
- Added support for additional CPU clusters
- Arm FVP
- Added support for performing SDEI platform setup at runtime
- Added support for SMCCC's ``SMCCC_ARCH_SOC_ID`` command
- Added an ``id`` field under the NV-counter node in the device tree to
differentiate between trusted and non-trusted NV-counters
- Added support for extracting the clock frequency from the timer node
in the device tree
- Arm Juno
- Added support for SMCCC's ``SMCCC_ARCH_SOC_ID`` command
- Arm N1SDP
- Added support for cross-chip PCI-e
- Marvell
- Added support for AVS reduction
- Marvell ARMADA
- Added support for twin-die combined memory device
- Marvell ARMADA A8K
- Added support for DDR with 32-bit bus width (both ECC and non-ECC)
- Marvell AP806
- Added workaround for erratum FE-4265711
- Marvell AP807
- Added workaround for erratum 3033912
- Nvidia Tegra
- Added debug printouts indicating SC7 entry sequence completion
- Added support for SDEI
- Added support for stack protection
- Added support for GICv3
- Added support for SMCCC's ``SMCCC_ARCH_SOC_ID`` command
- Nvidia Tegra194
- Added support for RAS exception handling
- Added support for SPM
- NXP i.MX
- Added support for SDEI
- QEMU SBSA
- Added support for the Secure Partition Manager
- QTI
- Added RNG driver
- Added SPMI PMIC arbitrator driver
- Added support for SMCCC's ``SMCCC_ARCH_SOC_ID`` command
- STM32MP1
- Added support for exposing peripheral interfaces to the non-secure
world at runtime
- Added support for SCMI clock and reset services
- Added support for STM32MP15x CPU revision Z
- Added support for SMCCC services in ``SP_MIN``
- Services
- Secure Payload Dispatcher
- Added a provision to allow clients to retrieve the service UUID
- SPMC
- Added secondary core endpoint information to the SPMC context
structure
- SPMD
- Added support for booting OP-TEE as a guest S-EL1 Secure Partition on
top of Hafnium in S-EL2
- Added a provision for handling SPMC messages to register secondary
core entry points
- Added support for power management operations
- Tools
- CertCreate
- Added support for secure partitions
- CertTool
- Added support for the ``fw_config`` image
- FIPTool
- Added support for the ``fw_config`` image
Changed
^^^^^^^
- Architecture support
- Bootloader images
- Build System
- The top-level Makefile now supports building FipTool on Windows
- The default value of ``KEY_SIZE`` has been changed to to 2048 when RSA is
in use
- The previously-deprecated macro ``__ASSEMBLY__`` has now been removed
- Common components
- Certain functions that flush the console will no longer return error
information
- Drivers
- Arm GIC
- Usage of ``drivers/arm/gic/common/gic_common.c`` has now been
deprecated in favour of ``drivers/arm/gic/vX/gicvX.mk``
- Added support for detecting the presence of a GIC600-AE
- Added support for detecting the presence of a GIC-Clayton
- Marvell MCI
- Now performs link tuning for all MCI interfaces to improve performance
- Marvell MoChi
- PIDI masters are no longer forced into a non-secure access level when
``LLC_SRAM`` is enabled
- The SD/MMC controllers are now accessible from guest virtual machines
- Mbed TLS
- Migrated to Mbed TLS v2.24.0
- STM32 FMC2 NAND
- Adjusted FMC node bindings to include an EBI controller node
- STM32 Reset
- Added an optional timeout argument to assertion functions
- STM32MP1 Clocks
- Enabled several additional system clocks during initialization
- Libraries
- C Standard Library
- Improved ``memset`` performance by avoiding single-byte writes
- Added optimized assembly variants of ``memset``
- CPU support
- Renamed Cortex-Hercules to Cortex-A78
- Renamed Cortex-Hercules AE to Cortex-A78 AE
- Renamed Neoverse Zeus to Neoverse V1
- Coreboot
- Updated ‘coreboot_get_memory_type’ API to take an extra argument as a
’memory size’ that used to return a valid memory type.
- libfdt
- Updated to latest upstream version
- Platforms
- Allwinner
- Disabled non-secure access to PRCM power control registers
- Arm
- ``BL32_BASE`` is now platform-dependent when ``SPD_spmd`` is enabled
- Added support for loading the Chain of Trust from the device tree
- The firmware update check is now executed only once
- NV-counter base addresses are now loaded from the device tree when
``COT_DESC_IN_DTB`` is enabled
- Now loads and populates ``fw_config`` and ``tb_fw_config``
- FCONF population now occurs after caches have been enabled in order
to reduce boot times
- Arm Corstone-700
- Platform support has been split into both an FVP and an FPGA variant
- Arm FPGA
- DTB and BL33 load addresses have been given sensible default values
- Now reads generic timer counter frequency, GICD and GICR base
addresses, and UART address from DT
- Now treats the primary PL011 UART as an SBSA Generic UART
- Arm FVP
- Secure interrupt descriptions, UART parameters, clock frequencies and
GICv3 parameters are now queried through FCONF
- UART parameters are now queried through the device tree
- Added an owner field to Cactus secure partitions
- Increased the maximum size of BL2 when the Chain of Trust is loaded
from the device tree
- Reduces the maximum size of BL31
- The ``FVP_USE_SP804_TIMER`` and ``FVP_VE_USE_SP804_TIMER`` build
options have been removed in favour of a common ``USE_SP804_TIMER``
option
- Added a third Cactus partition to manifests
- Device tree nodes now store UUIDs in big-endian
- Arm Juno
- Increased the maximum size of BL2 when optimizations have not been
applied
- Reduced the maximum size of BL31 and BL32
- Marvell AP807
- Enabled snoop filters
- Marvell ARMADA A3K
- UART recovery images are now suffixed with ``.bin``
- Marvell ARMADA A8K
- Option ``BL31_CACHE_DISABLE`` is now disabled (``0``) by default
- Nvidia Tegra
- Added VPR resize supported check when processing video memory resize
requests
- Added SMMU verification to prevent potential issues caused by
undetected corruption of the SMMU configuration during boot
- The GIC CPU interface is now properly disabled after CPU off
- The GICv2 sources list and the ``BL31_SIZE`` definition have been made
platform-specific
- The SPE driver will no longer flush the console when writing
individual characters
- Nvidia Tegra194
- TZDRAM setup has been moved to platform-specific early boot handlers
- Increased verbosity of debug prints for RAS SErrors
- Support for powering down CPUs during CPU suspend has been removed
- Now verifies firewall settings before using resources
- TI K3
- The UART number has been made configurable through ``K3_USART``
- Rockchip RK3368
- The maximum number of memory map regions has been increased to 20
- Socionext Uniphier
- The maximum size of BL33 has been increased to support larger
bootloaders
- STM32
- Removed platform-specific DT functions in favour of using existing
generic alternatives
- STM32MP1
- Increased verbosity of exception reports in debug builds
- Device trees have been updated to align with the Linux kernel
- Now uses the ETZPC driver to configure secure-aware interfaces for
assignment to the non-secure world
- Finished good variants have been added to the board identifier
enumerations
- Non-secure access to clocks and reset domains now depends on their
state of registration
- NEON is now disabled in ``SP_MIN``
- The last page of ``SYSRAM`` is now used as SCMI shared memory
- Checks to verify platform compatibility have been added to verify that
an image is compatible with the chip ID of the running platform
- QEMU SBSA
- Removed support for Arm's Cortex-A53
- Services
- Renamed SPCI to FF-A
- SPMD
- No longer forwards requests to the non-secure world when retrieving
partition information
- SPMC manifest size is now retrieved directly from SPMD instead of the
device tree
- The FF-A version handler now returns SPMD's version when the origin
of the call is secure, and SPMC's version when the origin of the call
is non-secure
- SPMC
- Updated the manifest to declare CPU nodes in descending order as per
the SPM (Hafnium) multicore requirement
- Updated the device tree to mark 2GB as device memory for the first
partition excluding trusted DRAM region (which is reserved for SPMC)
- Increased the number of EC contexts to the maximum number of PEs as
per the FF-A specification
- Tools
- FIPTool
- Now returns ``0`` on ``help`` and ``help <command>``
- Marvell DoImage
- Updated Mbed TLS support to v2.8
- SPTool
- Now appends CertTool arguments
Resolved Issues
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bootloader images
- Fixed compilation errors for dual-root Chains of Trust caused by symbol
collision
- BL31
- Fixed compilation errors on platforms with fewer than 4 cores caused
by initialization code exceeding the end of the stacks
- Fixed compilation errors when building a position-independent image
- Build System
- Fixed invalid empty version strings
- Fixed compilation errors on Windows caused by a non-portable architecture
revision comparison
- Drivers
- Arm GIC
- Fixed spurious interrupts caused by a missing barrier
- STM32 Flexible Memory Controller 2 (FMC2) NAND driver
- Fixed runtime instability caused by incorrect error detection logic
- STM32MP1 Clock driver
- Fixed incorrectly-formatted log messages
- Fixed runtime instability caused by improper clock gating procedures
- STMicroelectronics Raw NAND driver
- Fixed runtime instability caused by incorrect unit conversion when
waiting for NAND readiness
- Libraries
- AMU
- Fixed timeout errors caused by excess error logging
- EL3 Runtime
- Fixed runtime instability caused by improper register save/restore
routine in EL2
- FCONF
- Fixed failure to initialize GICv3 caused by overly-strict device tree
requirements
- Measured Boot
- Fixed driver errors caused by a missing default value for the
``HASH_ALG`` build option
- SPE
- Fixed feature detection check that prevented CPUs supporting SVE from
detecting support for SPE in the non-secure world
- Translation Tables
- Fixed various MISRA-C 2012 static analysis violations
- Platforms
- Allwinner A64
- Fixed USB issues on certain battery-powered device caused by
improperly activated USB power rail
- Arm
- Fixed compilation errors caused by increase in BL2 size
- Fixed compilation errors caused by missing Makefile dependencies to
generated files when building the FIP
- Fixed MISRA-C 2012 static analysis violations caused by unused
structures in include directives intended to be feature-gated
- Arm FPGA
- Fixed initialization issues caused by incorrect MPIDR topology mapping
logic
- Arm RD-N1-edge
- Fixed compilation errors caused by mismatched parentheses in Makefile
- Arm SGI
- Fixed crashes due to the flash memory used for cold reboot attack
protection not being mapped
- Intel Agilex
- Fixed initialization issues caused by several compounding bugs
- Marvell
- Fixed compilation warnings caused by multiple Makefile inclusions
- Marvell ARMADA A3K
- Fixed boot issue in debug builds caused by checks on the BL33 load
address that are not appropriate for this platform
- Nvidia Tegra
- Fixed incorrect delay timer reads
- Fixed spurious interrupts in the non-secure world during cold boot
caused by the arbitration bit in the memory controller not being
cleared
- Fixed faulty video memory resize sequence
- Nvidia Tegra194
- Fixed incorrect alignment of TZDRAM base address
- NXP iMX8M
- Fixed CPU hot-plug issues caused by race condition
- STM32MP1
- Fixed compilation errors in highly-parallel builds caused by incorrect
Makefile dependencies
- STM32MP157C-ED1
- Fixed initialization issues caused by missing device tree hash node
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Fixed compilation errors caused by incorrect dependency ordering in
Makefile
- Rockchip
- Fixed initialization issues caused by non-critical errors when parsing
FDT being treated as critical
- Rockchip RK3368
- Fixed runtime instability caused by incorrect CPUID shift value
- QEMU
- Fixed compilation errors caused by incorrect dependency ordering in
Makefile
- QEMU SBSA
- Fixed initialization issues caused by FDT exceeding reserved memory
size
- QTI
- Fixed compilation errors caused by inclusion of a non-existent file
- Services
- FF-A (previously SPCI)
- Fixed SPMD aborts caused by incorrect behaviour when the manifest is
page-aligned
- Tools
- Fixed compilation issues when compiling tools from within their respective
directories
- FIPTool
- Fixed command line parsing issues on Windows when using arguments
whose names also happen to be a subset of another's
- Marvell DoImage
- Fixed PKCS signature verification errors at boot on some platforms
caused by generation of misaligned images
Known Issues
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Platforms
- NVIDIA Tegra
- Signed comparison compiler warnings occurring in libfdt are currently
being worked around by disabling the warning for the platform until
the underlying issue is resolved in libfdt
Version 2.3
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- Build System
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- Add ``COT`` build option to select the
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- Added creation and injection of secure partition packages into the FIP.
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