Can Embedded and Iot "Just Work"? Standards, Systemready and Linux

Can Embedded and IoT "Just Work"? Standards, SystemReady and Linux

Fixed Custom

High SW Maintenance Low Flexibility Enabling Innovation Cost

Hardware, firmware specifications Security Certification program Certification program Open API for cross-platform security services

Cloud Native Stacks

Edge Reference Implementations

Hardware Requirements Firmware Requirements Architectural Compliance Suites (ACS) (BSA – Base System (BBR – Base Boot Architecture & Supplements Requirements) • Hardware requirements • Firmware requirements for • Testing SiP Reference for generic off-the-shelf OSes/Hypervisors such as Boards and OEM/ODM OSes Microsoft Windows, Red Products for SBSA/SBBR • Arm architecture and Hat, VMware, etc. compliance standards-based system • Focus on interface • The test suites are hosted architecture requirements, not in GitHub and are open implementation source (Apache v2):

Platform Diversity Diverse software ecosystem U-Boot and Devicetree • Healthy ecosystem with • Multiple OS designs • Large installed base many solutions • Custom builds • Mature Devicetree support • Modified distros • Vendor IP blocks • Preferred by developer • 3rd party supported community • Low standardization • Tailored for application • ACPI not practical • Highly configurable

UEFI subset

Devicetree provided by platform

Implemented in U-Boot and TF-A

UpdateCapsule()

Compliance Testing

Works with Yocto Project

Tested against Top Tier Distros

• Security option adds UEFI Secure Boot requirement • Important part of building secure, connected devices • Please look at PSA Certified program for securing IoT devices • https://www.psacertified.org/

IR (IoT) ES (Embedded Server) SR (ServerReady) Firmware Spec UEFI + Devicetree UEFI + ACPI + SMBIOS UEFI + ACPI + SMBIOS Platform Hardware 32bit/64bit Arm 64bit Arm 64bit Arm

Can support UEFI SecureBootand Secure Firmware Update via UEFI Capsule Service across (BBSR)

Generic, off-the-shelf OS/Hypervisor Linux, etc. w/ exceptions: RAS, Generic, off-the-shelf virtualization, etc. OS Distro Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows IoT Enterprise, VMware VMware ESXi, Windows Yocto (examples) ESXi, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, CentOS, Client/Server, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Under Investigation: OpenWRT, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, FreeBS, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, QNX, VxWorks, Integrity, Wind River, NetBSD FreeBSD, NetBSD Mentor Hardware Compliance BSA BSA BSA + SBSA + No BSA requirements for 32-bit + waivers for existing HW Levels 3 through 6 Levels + waivers for existing HW initially initially

BBR Recipe EBBR SBBR SBBR

Arm SystemReady ES Certification Arm SystemReady IR Arm SystemReady SR + System Certification List + System Certification List + System Certification List

Band Certified In Progress

• Standards documents • BSA v1.0 (released) • BBR v1.0 (released) • EBBR v2 (released in April, draft available on Github) • Certification requirements • Pass IR ACS test suite (To be released in July). UEFI SCT can be used in mean time • Boot two unmodified major Linux distros (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or Suse). • Firmware support • Required features already in mainline U-Boot, TF-A, Optee and StMM • Example platforms • Compulab IOT-GATE-IMX8, RockPro64 (rk3399) • Ongoing contractor work to bring up more platforms https://developer.arm.com/arm-systemready • Support documentation • SystemReady IR "How To" documentation in progress

Arm is spinning up certification program now

Expect announcements of certified platforms later this year

Join us on the EBBR community project at https://github.com/arm-software/ebbr

Tuesday Wednesday

• SystemReady SR and ES: Standards for • Standard Firmware Updates on Arm Servers and the Edge Jose Marinho Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud • Generic Image Approach and • SystemReady-IR in Practice LEDGE Reference Platform Vincent Stehlé Maxim Uvarov • The Case for UEFI Boot on Arm- powered IoT Devices David Tischler

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