2021-03-04 Project Stratos Sync Meeting notes

Attendees

• Alex
• Mathieu
• Matthew Spencer (ARM)
• Ilias
• Lioc Pallardy
• Jean-Phillipe 
• Srivasta 
• Pratik Patel
• Arnd
• Bogden Vlad
• Catalin
• Souvik Chakravarty
• Diana Craciun

• Review Action items 

• Discussion items

• Vincent: SCMI Server
• Alex: RustVMM/RPMB

Discussion Points 

• SCMI
  • postpone to next call (Vincent on holiday)
• RPMB
  • discussions about the key management - TrustZone vs Secure Enclave 
  • IL: if you don't have a secure world where your secret key is stored is a problem
  • Arnd: whats the actual use case of virtio-rpmb
    • AJB: well the first was a backend for OPTEE development under emulation
    • Also secure world application under EL2 (separate from Trusted OS)
    • Who can we ask on the key sub-system?
    • IL: Sumit 
    • IL: can we disable the PROGRAM_KEY option
    • Arnd: we could gate it with kernel lockdown feature
• virtio-i2c
  • Arnd: patches on list, looking good.
  • Might not work with some devices due to feature bits/quirks for older i2c devices (e.g. 10 bit addressing)
• AZ: asked to re-iterate the vhost-user discussion
  • AJB: did so
  • see also: https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost/pull/24
  • and: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg01000.html

Action items