Trusted Firmware-M Integration ############################## The Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M) section contains information about the integration between TF-M and Zephyr RTOS. Use this information to help understand how to integrate TF-M with Zephyr for Cortex-M platforms and make use of its secure run-time services in Zephyr applications. Board Definitions ***************** TF-M will be built for the secure processing environment along with Zephyr if the :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_BUILD_WITH_TFM` flag is set to ``y``. Generally, this value should never be set at the application level, however, and all config flags required for TF-M should be set in a board variant with the ``_ns`` suffix. This board variant must define an appropriate flash, SRAM and peripheral configuration that takes into account the initialisation process in the secure processing environment. :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_TFM_BOARD` must also be set via `modules/trusted-firmware-m/Kconfig.tfm `__ to the board name that TF-M expects for this target, so that it knows which target to build for the secure processing environment. Example: ``mps2_an521_ns`` ========================== The ``mps2_an521`` target is a dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 evaluation board that, when using the default board variant, would generate a secure Zephyr binary. The optional ``mps2_an521_ns`` target, however, sets these additional kconfig flags that indicate that Zephyr should be built as a non-secure image, linked with TF-M as an external project, and optionally the secure bootloader: * :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_TRUSTED_EXECUTION_NONSECURE` ``y`` * :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_ARM_TRUSTZONE_M` ``y`` Comparing the ``mps2_an521.dts`` and ``mps2_an521_ns.dts`` files, we can see that the ``_ns`` version defines offsets in flash and SRAM memory, which leave the required space for TF-M and the secure bootloader: :: reserved-memory { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; ranges; /* The memory regions defined below must match what the TF-M * project has defined for that board - a single image boot is * assumed. Please see the memory layout in: * https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/tree/platform/ext/target/mps2/an521/partition/flash_layout.h */ code: memory@100000 { reg = <0x00100000 DT_SIZE_K(512)>; }; ram: memory@28100000 { reg = <0x28100000 DT_SIZE_M(1)>; }; }; This reserves 1 MB of code memory and 1 MB of RAM for secure boot and TF-M, such that our non-secure Zephyr application code will start at 0x10000, with RAM at 0x28100000. 512 KB code memory is available for the NS zephyr image, along with 1 MB of RAM. This matches the flash memory layout we see in ``flash_layout.h`` in TF-M: :: * 0x0000_0000 BL2 - MCUBoot (0.5 MB) * 0x0008_0000 Secure image primary slot (0.5 MB) * 0x0010_0000 Non-secure image primary slot (0.5 MB) * 0x0018_0000 Secure image secondary slot (0.5 MB) * 0x0020_0000 Non-secure image secondary slot (0.5 MB) * 0x0028_0000 Scratch area (0.5 MB) * 0x0030_0000 Protected Storage Area (20 KB) * 0x0030_5000 Internal Trusted Storage Area (16 KB) * 0x0030_9000 NV counters area (4 KB) * 0x0030_A000 Unused (984 KB) ``mps2/an521`` will be passed in to Tf-M as the board target, specified via :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_TFM_BOARD`.