Release notes - TC2-2024.02.22-LSC
Release tag
The manifest tag for this release is TC2-2024.02.22-LSC.
Components
The following is a summary of the key software features of the release:
BSP build supporting Debian bookworm distro;
Trusted firmware-A for secure boot;
EDK2 bootloader;
Hafnium for S-EL2 Secure Partition Manager core;
OP-TEE for Trusted Execution Environment (TEE);
Trusted Services (Crypto and Internal Trusted Storage);
System Control Processor(SCP) firmware for programming the interconnect, power control, etc;
Runtime Security Subsystem (RSS) firmware for providing HW RoT;
Hardware Features
Booker aka CoreLink CI-700 with Memory Tagging Unit (MTU) support driver in SCP firmware;
GIC Clayton Initialization in Trusted Firmware-A;
Mali-G720 GPU;
Mali-D71 DPU and virtual encoder support for display on Linux;
MHUv2 Driver for SCP and AP communication;
UARTs, Timers, Flash, PIK, Clock drivers;
PL180 MMC;
DynamIQ Shared Unit (DSU) with 8 cores (1 Cortex X4 + 3 Cortex A720 + 4 Cortex A520 cores configuration);
RSS based on Cortex M55;
SCP based on Cortex M3;
Software Features
Debian 12 (aka Bookworm);
Linux Kernel 6.1.0;
EDK2 v202402 (Feb 2024);
Trusted Firmware-A v2.9;
Hafnium v2.9 as Secure Partition Manager (SPM) at S-EL2;
OP-TEE v4.1.0 as Secure Partition at S-EL1, managed by S-EL2 SPMC (Hafnium);
Support for secure boot based on TBBR specification (more info available at link);
System Control Processor (SCP) firmware v2.12;
Runtime Security Subsystem (RSS) firmware v1.8.0;
VirtIO to mount the Debian image in the host machine as a storage device in the FVP;
Trusted Services (Crypto and Internal Trusted Storage) running at S-EL0;
Platform Support
This software release is tested on TC2 Fast Model platform (FVP) version 11.23.28.
Tools Support
This software release extends docker support to Debian distro (making it supported to all TC build variants).
Known issues or Limitations
Ubuntu 22.04 is not supported in this release;
SVE2 (Scalable Vector Extension) feature is not supported with this release;
systemd-resolved.servicefails multiple times before successful start, which causes delay in boot time;This can be avoided following one of the below workaround steps:
Method 1 - editing the Kernel command line parameters:
during the boot process, once the Grub screen appears (list of options that allow to choose what to boot), press
ekey to edit the boot command;navigate to the line with the command line parameters (usually starts with
linux /boot/vmlinux*), and appendsystemd.mask=systemd-resolved.service;press
F10to continue to boot with the added boot parameters.
Method 2 - make the changes to be permanent for every boot:
wait for the OS to fully boot, login and get to the command prompt;
on the command prompt, run the following command
vi /etc/default/grubto edit the Grub configuration;add the following line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="systemd.mask=systemd-resolved.service";save the changes and exit the
vieditor;on the command prompt, run the command
update-grubto update and apply the new Grub configuration.
Upon the completion of running the ACS (UEFI boot with ACPI support) tests, a synchronous exception is experienced, and some dump information will be presented on the
FVP terminal_uart1_apwindow, similar to the following excerpt:(...) Operating System View: 701 : Non Secure Watchdog Access : Result: PASS 702 : Check Watchdog WS0 interrupt : Result: PASS All Watchdog tests passed. *** No ECAM region found, Skipping PCIE tests *** ------------------------------------------------------- Total Tests run = 45 Tests Passed = 34 Tests Failed = 7 ------------------------------------------------------- *** BSA tests complete. Reset the system. *** remove-symbol-file /home/runner/work/arm-systemready/arm-systemready/SR/scripts/edk2/Build/Shell/DEBUG_GCC49/AARCH64/ShellPkg/Application/bsa-acs/uefi_app/BsaAcs/DEBUG/Bsa.dll 0xF73ED000 Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000F73F9454 Recursive exception occurred while dumping the CPU state Unhandled Exception in EL3. x30 = 0x000000000402cb94 x0 = 0x0000000000000000 x1 = 0x000000000000003a x2 = 0x0000000000000000 x3 = 0x00000000820003c8 x4 = 0x0000000000000000 x5 = 0x000000009600004f x6 = 0x00000000fc8a4f90 x7 = 0x00000000fc9ccc10 x8 = 0x0000000001000000 x9 = 0x0000000004035200 x10 = 0x0000009fa226e8f3 x11 = 0x0000021e648978a7 x12 = 0x0000000000000002 x13 = 0x0000000000000002 x14 = 0x0000000000000001 x15 = 0x00000000000000ff x16 = 0x00000000f73f9454 x17 = 0x00000000fcb41000 x18 = 0x00000000fc8a5130 x19 = 0x0000000004035a70 x20 = 0x0000000000000000 x21 = 0x0000000000000000 x22 = 0x0000000000000000 x23 = 0x0000000000000000 x24 = 0x0000000000000000 x25 = 0x0000000000000000 x26 = 0x0000000000000000 x27 = 0x0000000000000000 x28 = 0x0000000000000000 x29 = 0x0000000000000000 scr_el3 = 0x000000401c07073d sctlr_el3 = 0x00000000b0cd183f cptr_el3 = 0x0000000000000000 tcr_el3 = 0x000000008081351c daif = 0x00000000000003c0 mair_el3 = 0x00000000004404ff spsr_el3 = 0x00000000630002cd elr_el3 = 0x0000000004021c30 ttbr0_el3 = 0x000000000403c001 esr_el3 = 0x00000000be000211 far_el3 = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 elr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_abt = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_und = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_irq = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_fiq = 0x0000000000000000 sctlr_el1 = 0x0000000030d00980 actlr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 cpacr_el1 = 0x0000000000300000 csselr_el1 = 0x0000000000000004 sp_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 esr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 ttbr0_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 ttbr1_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 mair_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 amair_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 tcr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 tpidr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 tpidr_el0 = 0x00000000f501edc0 tpidrro_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 par_el1 = 0x0000000000000800 mpidr_el1 = 0x0000000081000000 afsr0_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 afsr1_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 contextidr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 vbar_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 cntp_ctl_el0 = 0x0000000000000002 cntp_cval_el0 = 0x00000020f49a0984 cntv_ctl_el0 = 0x0000000000000002 cntv_cval_el0 = 0x00000020ecda7b2f cntkctl_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 sp_el0 = 0x00000000fc8a5130 isr_el1 = 0x0000000000000040 cpuectlr_el1 = 0x0000000000900000
Upon running the tf-a-tests, a panic in EL3 is experienced, and some dump information will be presented on the
FVP terminal_uart_apwindow, similar to the following excerpt:(...) Running test suite 'Framework Validation' Description: Validate the core features of the test framework> Executing 'NVM support' TEST COMPLETE Passed> Executing 'NVM serialisation' TEST COMPLETE Passed> Executing 'Events API' ERROR: Unexpected affinity info state. BACKTRACE: START: psci_warmboot_entrypoint 0: EL3: 0x4022478 1: EL3: 0x4029aa0 2: EL3: 0x40201d4 3: EL3: 0x4022550 BACKTRACE: END: psci_warmboot_entrypoint PANIC in EL3. x30 = 0x0000000004029aac x0 = 0x0000000000000001 x1 = 0x0000000000000002 x2 = 0x0000000000000097 x3 = 0x00000000ffffffc8 x4 = 0x0000000000000004 x5 = 0x0000000000000000 x6 = 0x000000000402ab70 x7 = 0x0000000000000000 x8 = 0x0000000001000000 x9 = 0x00000000040201c8 x10 = 0x0000000004021cf4 x11 = 0x00000000fd030000 x12 = 0x00000000fd000800 x13 = 0x0000000080000000 x14 = 0x00000000410fd801 x15 = 0x0000000080000000 x16 = 0x0000000000000000 x17 = 0x0000000000000017 x18 = 0x000000401c070f38 x19 = 0x0000000004020140 x20 = 0x0000000000000000 x21 = 0x000000000403b000 x22 = 0x0000000000000000 x23 = 0x0000000000000000 x24 = 0x0000000000000000 x25 = 0x0000000000000000 x26 = 0x0000000000000000 x27 = 0x0000000000000000 x28 = 0x0000000000000000 x29 = 0x0000000004030b90 scr_el3 = 0x0000000000030638 sctlr_el3 = 0x00000000b0cd183f cptr_el3 = 0x0000000040100000 tcr_el3 = 0x000000008081351c daif = 0x00000000000002c0 mair_el3 = 0x00000000004404ff spsr_el3 = 0x00000000604003c9 elr_el3 = 0x00000000fd0013d0 ttbr0_el3 = 0x000000000403c001 esr_el3 = 0x0000000000000000 far_el3 = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 elr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_abt = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_und = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_irq = 0x0000000000000000 spsr_fiq = 0x0000000000000000 sctlr_el1 = 0x0000000030d80998 actlr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 cpacr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 csselr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 sp_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 esr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 ttbr0_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 ttbr1_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 mair_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 amair_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 tcr_el1 = 0x0000000080000000 tpidr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 tpidr_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 tpidrro_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 par_el1 = 0xff0000000402a980 mpidr_el1 = 0x0000000081000000 afsr0_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 afsr1_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 contextidr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 vbar_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 cntp_ctl_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 cntp_cval_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 cntv_ctl_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 cntv_cval_el0 = 0x0000000000000000 cntkctl_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 sp_el0 = 0x0000000004030b90 isr_el1 = 0x0000000000000000 cpuectlr_el1 = 0x0000000000900000
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