.. contents::
+Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.6
+================================
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+- Addressing Speculation Security Vunerabilities
+
+ - Implement static workaround for CVE-2018-3639 for AArch32 and AArch64
+
+ - Add support for dynamic mitigation for CVE-2018-3639
+
+ - Implement dynamic mitigation for CVE-2018-3639 on Cortex-A76
+
+ - Ensure SDEI handler executes with CVE-2018-3639 mitigation enabled
+
+- Introduce RAS handling on AArch64
+
+ - Some RAS extensions are mandatory for ARMv8.2 CPUs, with others
+ mandatory for ARMv8.4 CPUs however, all extensions are also optional
+ extensions to the base ARMv8.0 architecture.
+
+ - The ARMv8 RAS Extensions introduced Standard Error Records which are a
+ set of standard registers to configure RAS node policy and allow RAS
+ Nodes to record and expose error information for error handling agents.
+
+ - Capabilities are provided to support RAS Node enumeration and iteration
+ along with individual interrupt registrations and fault injections
+ support.
+
+ - Introduce handlers for Uncontainable errors, Double Faults and EL3
+ External Aborts
+
+- Enable Memory Partitioning And Monitoring (MPAM) for lower EL's
+
+ - Memory Partitioning And Monitoring is an Armv8.4 feature that enables
+ various memory system components and resources to define partitions.
+ Software running at various ELs can then assign themselves to the
+ desired partition to control their performance aspects.
+
+ - When ENABLE_MPAM_FOR_LOWER_ELS is set to 1, EL3 allows
+ lower ELs to access their own MPAM registers without trapping to EL3.
+ This patch however, doesn't make use of partitioning in EL3; platform
+ initialisation code should configure and use partitions in EL3 if
+ required.
+
+- Introduce ROM Lib Feature
+
+ - Support combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image,
+ that may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib
+ image is stored in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be
+ stored in read-write memory, allowing for the library code to be patched.
+
+- Introduce Backtrace Feature
+
+ - This function displays the backtrace, the current EL and security state
+ to allow a post-processing tool to choose the right binary to interpret
+ the dump.
+
+ - Print backtrace in assert() and panic() to the console.
+
+- Code hygiene changes and alignment with MISRA C-2012 guideline with fixes
+ addressing issues complying to the following rules:
+
+ - MISRA rules 4.9, 5.1, 5.3, 5.7, 8.2-8.5, 8.8, 8.13, 9.3, 10.1,
+ 10.3-10.4, 10.8, 11.3, 11.6, 12.1, 14.4, 15.7, 16.1-16.7, 17.7-17.8,
+ 20.7, 20.10, 20.12, 21.1, 21.15, 22.7
+
+ - Clean up the usage of void pointers to access symbols
+
+ - Increase usage of static qualifier to locally used functions and data
+
+ - Migrated to use of u_register_t for register read/write to better
+ match AArch32 and AArch64 type sizes
+
+ - Use int-ll64 for both AArch32 and AArch64 to assist in consistent
+ format strings between architectures
+
+ - Clean up TF-A libc by removing non arm copyrighted implementations
+ and replacing them with modified FreeBSD and SCC implementations
+
+- Various changes to support Clang linker and assembler
+
+ - The clang assembler/preprocessor is used when Clang is selected however,
+ the clang linker is not used because it is unable to link TF-A objects
+ due to immaturity of clang linker functionality at this time.
+
+- Refactor support API's into Libraries
+
+ - Evolve libfdt, mbed TLS library and standard C library sources as
+ proper libraries that TF-A may be linked against.
+
+- CPU Enhancements
+
+ - Add CPU support for Cortex-Ares and Cortex-A76
+
+ - Add AMU support for Cortex-Ares
+
+ - Add initial CPU support for Cortex-Deimos
+
+ - Add initial CPU support for Cortex-Helios
+
+ - Implement dynamic mitigation for CVE-2018-3639 on Cortex-A76
+
+ - Implement Cortex-Ares erratum 1043202 workaround
+
+ - Implement DSU erratum 936184 workaround
+
+ - Check presence of fix for errata 843419 in Cortex-A53
+
+ - Check presence of fix for errata 835769 in Cortex-A53
+
+- Translation Tables Enhancements
+
+ - The xlat v2 library has been refactored in order to be reused by
+ different TF components at different EL's including the addition of EL2.
+ Some refactoring to make the code more generic and less specific to TF,
+ in order to reuse the library outside of this project.
+
+- SPM Enhancements
+
+ - General cleanups and refactoring to pave the way to multiple partitions
+ support
+
+- SDEI Enhancements
+
+ - Allow platforms to define explicit events
+
+ - Determine client EL from NS context's SCR_EL3
+
+ - Make dispatches synchronous
+
+ - Introduce jump primitives for BL31
+
+ - Mask events after CPU wakeup in SDEI dispatcher to conform to the
+ specification
+
+- Misc TF-A Core Common Code Enhancements
+
+ - Add support for eXecute In Place (XIP) memory in BL2
+
+ - Add support for the SMC Calling Convention 2.0
+
+ - Introduce External Abort handling on AArch64
+ External Abort routed to EL3 was reported as an unhandled exception
+ and caused a panic. This change enables Arm Trusted Firmware-A to
+ handle External Aborts routed to EL3.
+
+ - Save value of ACTLR_EL1 implementation-defined register in the CPU
+ context structure rather than forcing it to 0.
+
+ - Introduce ARM_LINUX_KERNEL_AS_BL33 build option, which allows BL31 to
+ directly jump to a Linux kernel. This makes for a quicker and simpler
+ boot flow, which might be useful in some test environments.
+
+ - Add dynamic configurations for BL31, BL32 and BL33 enabling support for
+ Chain of Trust (COT).
+
+ - Make TF UUID RFC 4122 compliant
+
+- New Platform Support
+
+ - Arm SGI-575
+
+ - Arm SGM-775
+
+ - Allwinner sun50i_64
+
+ - Allwinner sun50i_h6
+
+ - NXP ls1043
+
+ - NXP i.MX8QX
+
+ - NXP i.MX8QM
+
+ - TI K3
+
+ - Socionext Synquacer SC2A11
+
+ - Marvell Armada 8K
+
+ - STMicroelectronics STM32MP1
+
+- Misc Generic Platform Common Code Enhancements
+
+ - Add MMC framework that supports both eMMC and SD card devices
+
+- Misc Arm Platform Common Code Enhancements
+
+ - Demonstrate PSCI MEM_PROTECT from el3_runtime
+
+ - Provide RAS support
+
+ - Migrate AArch64 port to the multi console driver. The old API is
+ deprecated and will eventually be removed.
+
+ - Move BL31 below BL2 to enable BL2 overlay resulting in changes in the
+ layout of BL images in memory to enable more efficient use of available
+ space.
+
+ - Add cpp build processing for dtb that allows processing device tree
+ with external includes.
+
+ - Extend FIP io driver to support multiple FIP devices
+
+ - Add support for SCMI AP core configuration protocol v1.0
+
+ - Use SCMI AP core protocol to set the warm boot entrypoint
+
+ - Add support to Mbed TLS drivers for shared heap among different
+ BL images to help optimise memory usage
+
+ - Enable non-secure access to UART1 through a build option to support
+ a serial debug port for debugger connection
+
+- Enhancements for Arm Juno Platform
+
+ - Add support for TrustZone Media Protection 1 (TZMP1)
+
+- Enhancements for Arm FVP Platform
+
+ - Dynamic_config: remove the FVP dtb files
+
+ - Set DYNAMIC_WORKAROUND_CVE_2018_3639=1 on FVP by default
+
+ - Set the ability to dynamically disable Trusted Boot Board
+ authentication to be off by default with DYN_DISABLE_AUTH
+
+ - Add librom enhancement support in FVP
+
+ - Support shared Mbed TLS heap between BL1 and BL2 that allow a
+ reduction in BL2 size for FVP
+
+- Enhancements for Arm SGI/SGM Platform
+
+ - Enable ARM_PLAT_MT flag for SGI-575
+
+ - Add dts files to enable support for dynamic config
+
+ - Add RAS support
+
+ - Support shared Mbed TLS heap for SGI and SGM between BL1 and BL2
+
+- Enhancements for Non Arm Platforms
+
+ - Raspberry Pi Platform
+
+ - Hikey Platforms
+
+ - Xilinx Platforms
+
+ - QEMU Platform
+
+ - Rockchip rk3399 Platform
+
+ - TI Platforms
+
+ - Socionext Platforms
+
+ - Allwinner Platforms
+
+ - NXP Platforms
+
+ - NVIDIA Tegra Platform
+
+ - Marvell Platforms
+
+ - STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 Platform
+
+Issues resolved since last release
+----------------------------------
+
+- No issues known at 1.5 release resolved in 1.6 release
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+- DTB creation not supported when building on a Windows host. This step in the
+ build process is skipped when running on a Windows host. Known issue from
+ 1.5 version.
+
Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.5
================================
Known Issues
------------
-- DTB creation not supported when building on a windows host. This step in the
- build process is skipped when running on a windows host.
+- DTB creation not supported when building on a Windows host. This step in the
+ build process is skipped when running on a Windows host.
Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.4
================================
-Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.5
+Trusted Firmware-A - version 1.6
================================
Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) provides a reference implementation of secure world
- Support for the GCC, LLVM and Arm Compiler 6 toolchains.
+- Support combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image, that
+ may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image
+ is stored in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be stored
+ in read-write memory, allowing for the library code to be patched.
+
For a full description of functionality and implementation details, please
see the `Firmware Design`_ and supporting documentation. The `Change Log`_
provides details of changes made since the last release.
r0, r1 and r2 of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_.
Various AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on the following Arm
-Fixed Virtual Platforms (`FVP`_) without shifted affinities, and that do not
+Fixed Virtual Platforms (`FVP`_) without shifted affinities that do not
support threaded CPU cores (64-bit host machine only):
-NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, the FVP Version is 11.2 Build 11.2.33.
+NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, the model version is Version 11.4 Build 37.
-- ``Foundation_Platform``
-- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A`` (and also Version 9.0, Build 0.8.9005)
+- ``FVP_Base_Aresx4``
+- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A``
+- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A-AEMv8A-AEMv8A-CCN502``
+- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A``
+- ``FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMv8A``
+- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A35x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A53x4``
+- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4+Cortex-A75x4``
+- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4-A53x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A57x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4-A53x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A72x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4-A53x4``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A73x4``
+- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A75x4``
+- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A76x4``
+- ``FVP_CSS_SGI-575`` (Version 11.3 build 40)
+- ``Foundation_Platform``
-Additionally, various AArch64 builds were tested on the following Arm `FVP`_ s
-with shifted affinities, supporting threaded CPU cores (64-bit host machine
-only).
-
-- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4-A75x4`` (Version 0.0, build 0.0.4395)
-- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A55x4`` (Version 0.0, build 0.0.4395)
-- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A75x4`` (Version 0.0, build 0.0.4395)
-- ``FVP_Base_RevC-2xAEMv8A``
-
-Various AArch32 builds of this release has been tested on the following Arm
-`FVP`_\ s without shifted affinities, and that do not support threaded CPU cores
-(64-bit host machine only):
+The latest version of the AArch32 build of TF-A has been tested on the following
+Arm FVPs without shifted affinities that do not support threaded CPU cores
+(64-bit host machine only).
- ``FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A``
- ``FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4``
The Foundation FVP can be downloaded free of charge. The Base FVPs can be
licensed from Arm. See the `Arm FVP website`_.
-All the above platforms have been tested with `Linaro Release 17.10`_.
+All the above platforms have been tested with `Linaro Release 18.04`_.
This release also contains the following platform support:
+- Allwinner sun50i_64 and sun50i_h6
+- ARM SGI-575 and SGM-775
- HiKey, HiKey960 and Poplar boards
+- Marvell Amarda 8K
- MediaTek MT6795 and MT8173 SoCs
- NVidia T132, T186 and T210 SoCs
+- NXP ls1043, i.MX8QX and i.MX8QM
- QEMU emulator
- Raspberry Pi 3 board
- RockChip RK3328, RK3368 and RK3399 SoCs
- Socionext UniPhier SoC family and SynQuacer SC2A11 SoCs
+- STMicroelectronics STM32MP1
- Texas Instruments K3 SoCs
- Xilinx Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC
- More platform support.
-- Improved dynamic configuration support.
+- Position independent executable (PIE) support.
- Ongoing support for new architectural features, CPUs and System IP.
.. _Juno Arm Development Platform: http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/juno-arm-development-platform.php
.. _Arm FVP website: FVP_
.. _FVP: https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms
-.. _Linaro Release 17.10: https://community.arm.com/dev-platforms/b/documents/posts/linaro-release-notes-deprecated#LinaroRelease17.10
+.. _Linaro Release 18.04: https://community.arm.com/dev-platforms/b/documents/posts/linaro-release-notes-deprecated#LinaroRelease18.04
.. _OP-TEE Secure OS: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os
.. _NVidia Trusted Little Kernel: http://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/gitweb/?p=3rdparty/ote_partner/tlk.git;a=summary
.. _Trusty Secure OS: https://source.android.com/security/trusty
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