EBBR Notes 2020.09.14

Attendees:

• Joakim Bech (Linaro)
• Matthias Brugger (Suse)
• Simon Glass (Google)
• Reed Hinkel (Arm)
• Priyanka Jain (NXP)
• Grant Likely (Arm)
• Daniel Thompson (Linaro)
• Ruchika (Linaro)

Agenda

• Issue Review
  • #31 no update
  • #46 resolved
  • #49 Close as nothing to track
  • #52 Waiting for patches to resolve

Note on patches - We discussed if patches should go via mailing list or Github PR. Grant is happy to receive either. More technical or more controversially patches would be better to the mailing list for discussion purposes, but all commits are subject to review by this committee before release of document. (Came up during patch review)

Secure Platform Requirements

• No progress. Had a short discussion about how to craft the requirements. Some notes:
  • Would be good to leverage existing specs (e.g. PSA)
  • Will still need EBBR specific language where the other specs are insufficient
  • How do we address Side Channel Attacks (SCA) in the spec (and in general)?
  • Joakim is investigating

Discussion on DT stability requirements

• Grant has been sitting on PR#38 for 2 years. Hasn't been comfortable merging it as it is a 'fuzzy' problem. There isn't a good way to test if a DT is stable or not.
• The problem is one that belongs to the Linux kernel project and the maintenance of each SoC DT bindings. Some SoCs are more stable than others
• Problem is better tackled in the Devicetree Evolution project.

Meeting adjourned at 16:29 BST