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arm-trusted-firmware

Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A

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What it is

Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-05-16 18:07:27 UTC to 2026-01-05 07:46:28 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

11 sources
penguin_booze·Apr 17, 2023
Arm v7 was a Wild West, but with v8, Arm tried to standardize a lot. The Arm Trusted Firmware is the reference boot firmware implementation for v8+ CPUs: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware. I'd think most of the referece documents can be discovered from that code base. Relatedly, from the perspective of hands-on programming, the System Programmer's guide is the manual to start with: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0024/a/.
In Booting Modern Intel CPUs
makomk·Jun 6, 2019
ARM TrustZone is basically just a hypervisor-like execution level that runs above the actual hypervisor called the "secure world", along with ways of calling into it. There's already open-source implementations of the firmware for the secure world on ARM chips, including one from ARM themselves: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware All of the really super-secret security and DRM critical stuff is in the vendor's hardware and code.
In PSPTool Is a Swiss Army Knife for the Firmware of the AMD Secure Processor
duskwuff·May 6, 2017
> The fact that both AMD and ARM integrated similar technologies at around the same time is too much coincidence. Don't believe the FSF's FUD. TrustZone is really not comparable at all to Intel's Management Engine or AMD's Secure Processor: * TrustZone is an operating mode of the CPU, not a separate processor. Fundamentally, it's not all that different from supervisor mode; it's just more privileged. (If you really wanted, you could probably write an OS that ran parts of the kernel in TrustZone.) * You don't have to have anything running under TrustZone. Indeed, most processors which support TrustZone (e.g, most Android phones) aren't using it at all. * The TrustZone specification is publicly available [1]. You can read about it all you want. (If you're brave enough and have the right development tools, you can even write code to run in i
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t.) * ARM's reference implementation of a TrustZone OS is also publicly available [2]. If you're curious how it works, you can see for yourself. (This doesn't include the application code which may be present in specific implementations, of course.) [1]: https://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzo... [2]: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
In Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability

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