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Trusted Firmware-A v2.6 released with Armv9 features support!

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Matteo Carlini| Tuesday, December 7, 2021|3 min read

Introduction

Trusted Firmware-A has just completed the official v2.6 release, tagged across four main repositories: TF-A, TF-A-Tests, Hafnium and TF-A OpenCI Scripts.

This is the very first release to enable support for the recently announced Armv9 architecture features.

The whole content of the release is described on the respective TF-A (1), TF-A-Tests (2) and Hafnium (3) change-logs, but here are some interesting highlights.

Highlights

New Arm cores and Arm/Partners platforms support:

Various Hardware errata software workarounds added for Cortex-A78, Cortex-A710, Neoverse-N2, Neoverse-V1

[1] https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/change-log.html#version-2-6
[2] https://trustedfirmware-a-tests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/change-log.html#version-2-6
[3] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/hafnium/hafnium/+/HEAD/docs/ChangeLog.md#v2_6

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