Open-CMSIS-Pack Technical Meeting 2021-12-14

Owned by Joachim Krech
Last updated: Dec 15, 2021 by Bill Fletcher
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Date

Dec 14, 2021

Participants

Jonatan Antoni

Charles Oliveira

Daniel Brondani

David Jurajda

Frederic Ruelle

Graham Hammond

Joachim Krech

Laurent Meunier

Marc Goodner

Maxime Dortel

Pascale Mondoloni

Reinhard Keil

Samuel Hultgren

Slides

Notes

Opening

 JK opens the meeting, welcomes all attendees, and mentions the meeting is recorded.

Agenda

 JK presents the agenda (see slides) and asks for additional requests for today.

No additional topics are raised by the audience.

 ## Activities from last week

 The blog post is now live https://www.linaro.org/blog/recent-developments-in-the-open-cmsis-pack-project/

  • PR #64 CMSIS-Spec spec is merged

  • PR #63 Proposing system description terminology is open to review.
    Request to everybody: Leave thumbs up / down

  • Issue #64 Renaming repository

    • Proposal is Open-CMSIS-Pack into CMSIS-Pack-Spec
      RK: Dropping “Open” from the name is causing ambiguities with Arm’s CMSIS brand

    • Open-CMSIS-Pack-Spec seems to be appropriate

Pack signing

 https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/cpackget/issues/8

 CO presents his proposal for pack signing (see slides).

  • Using gpg

  • Private key should be hidden in Vendor’s internals

  • Public key needs to be made public

    • Next to the pack’s as

    • Uploaded to a keyserver

    • Public key per pack, e.g., <publickey> tag in PDSC

    • Standalone public key local to the filesystem

 FR proposes to use X.509 certificates instead of plain GPG keys. This would have a couple of features over shared keys, such as certificate chains with per-developer certificate.

JK adds that this is exactly the kind of discussion we want to start.

JA adds that we need to take special care about old versions of packs in case of “revocation” of a key or certificate.

 CO shows how GPG could be used to sign packs

  • GPG creates .sign file for each .pack file

  • The .sign file can be served next to the .pack file (same base URL)

 FR raises concerns about modifications to pack content after installation. This could happen a pack signature is only checked once during installation.

CMSIS Project Manager

Project Structure

 RK presents documentation for today’s RTE folder usage. The background is PR #65 proposing to rename/relocate the RTE folder.

SH raises questions about the content and whether the content may or should not be modified by the user.

RK clarifies that the directory structure should not be changed by the user i.e., files should not be renamed. But the file contents in that folder are meant to be modified by the user.

RK explains the requirement to have a standard RTE folder layout because of tool interoperability i.e., when one moves a project from one tool to another (e.g., IDE vs. CI).

JK asks for background for the request to rename the folder.

SH states he would name it “one time generated” to make its purpose clear.

LM adds that by itself the name “RTE” is not known to STs ecosystem. For compatibility with existing tools, it would be preferable to be able to customize the name and location of this folder per project.

RK summarized that this would require us to record the actual name in the project.

 Another level of flexibility for the content of RTE folder is discussed in issue #30.

Access Sequence

 RK presents a proposal for CMSIS Project Manager Access Sequence.

 Development update

 DB presents about his progress in managing layers.

RK highlights that in multi-project solutions one might require a combination of different “build-types” (i.e., release or debug) for enclosed projects. One might want to have release build for bootloader and secure firmware combined with debug build of non-secure firmware.

 Structure of AWS Software Stack

 RK presents the application demo “AWS Software Stack”. This working example shows how layers can be permutated into a variety of concrete projects.

 Wrap up / Next Meetings

 No meetings 21st, 28th Dec or 4th Jan

Next meeting will be 11th Jan 2022

JK closes the meeting and wishes happy Christmas to everybody.

Recording

 

NOTE: Open-CMSIS-Pack repository was renamed to Open-CMSIS-Pack-Spec

It is recommended to update existing clones:

$ git remote set-url origin new_url

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/Open-CMSIS-Pack/Open-CMSIS-Pack-Spec