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Bug#881620: ITP: arm-trusted-firmware -- reference implementation of secure world software for ARMv8-A



Package: wnpp
Owner: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : arm-trusted-firmware
  Version         : 1.4
  Upstream Author : ARM Limited and Contributors
* URL or Web page : https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/
* License         : BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, Expat, ISC
  Description     : reference implementation of secure world software for ARMv8-A

ARM Trusted Firmware provides a reference implementation of secure world
software for `ARMv8-A`_, including a `Secure Monitor`_ executing at
Exception Level 3 (EL3). It implements various ARM interface standards,
such as:

-  The `Power State Coordination Interface (PSCI)`_
-  Trusted Board Boot Requirements (TBBR, ARM DEN0006C-1)
-  `SMC Calling Convention`_
-  `System Control and Management Interface`_

As far as possible the code is designed for reuse or porting to other
ARMv8-A model and hardware platforms.

ARM will continue development in collaboration with interested parties
to provide a full reference implementation of Secure Monitor code and
ARM standards to the benefit of all developers working with ARMv8-A
TrustZone technology.

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This is needed to boot various arm64 boards (pine64, firefly-rk3399)
that may not have built-in firmware shipped with them, possibly in
conjunction with an EFI implementation or u-boot.


Some considerations when packaging this:

- Not all vendors are merged upstream; there are several vendor-specific
  forks that are needed in order to support specific hardware, such as
  support for allwinner A64:
  https://github.com/apritzel/arm-trusted-firmware

I would definitely need some help with initial and long-term maintenance
to make this a reality...


live well,
  vagrant

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