Bootlin contributions to OP-TEE 3.15 and 3.16

OP-TEE logoLast year, Bootlin started contributing to the OP-TEE project, which is an open source Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) implemented using the Arm TrustZone technology. We published a blog post about our contribution of a generic clock framework to OP-TEE, and also presented a talk OP-TEE: When Linux Loses Control (slides, video).

As part of this work, Bootlin engineer Clément Léger contributed to the OP-TEE project, and many of his contributions have already been merged, and released as part of the 3.15 and 3.16 OP-TEE releases. In this blog post, we present some details of our contributions to OP-TEE so far, and our next steps.

Summary

Since then, we contributed a number of features and improvements to OP-TEE. First, a number of generic, HW-agnostic contributions:

The Microchip SAMA5D2 platform support was also greatly improved with the following improvements:

  • Cleanup of existing SAMA5D2 support
  • Rework of the memory layout
  • Device Tree support
  • Board support for sama5d27-som1-ek1
  • Clock tree support: includes drivers for all the clocks available on sama5d2 SoC
  • TRNG driver
  • Reset and shutdown controller drivers
  • PSCI support for reset and shutdown

Contribution details

We contributed 11 commits to OP-TEE 3.15.0:

We contributed 48 commits to OP-TEE 3.16.0. This level of contribution makes Bootlin engineer Clément Léger the second most active contributor by number of commits for this OP-TEE release.

Next steps

We will continue our effort on sam5d2 support on OP-TEE and as part of this, there will be contributions on several generic subsystems as well as SAMA5D2 support:

  • Watchdog support
    • Generic watchdog API
    • OP-TEE Watchdog service compatible with arm,smc-wdt Linux driver
    • Sama5d2 watchdog driver
  • RTC support
    • Generic RTC API
    • OP-TEE RTC PTA to expose RTC to Linux
    • sama5d2 RTC driver
    • Linux driver for OP-TEE RTC
  • SAMA5D2 suspend support
    • Support forULP0, ULP1, ULP0 Fast and backup modes
    • PSCI support
  • SAMA5D2 interrupt controller support

Do not hesitate to contact us if you need help and support to integrate or deploy OP-TEE on your platform, either Microchip platforms, but also other ARM32 or ARM64 platforms.

Thomas Petazzoni

Author: Thomas Petazzoni

Thomas Petazzoni is Bootlin's co-owner and CEO. Thomas joined Bootlin in 2008 as a kernel and embedded Linux engineer, became CTO in 2013, and co-owner/CEO in 2021. More details...

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