Image

Image selection

The boot process shall be uninterruptible and shall irrevocably boot the image as specified in the boot environment.

In U-Boot set the "bootdelay" environment variable and/or define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY to -2.

Domain Variable / Config name Value
Boot-Image-Selection-1 CONFIG_BOOTDELAY -2
Boot-Image-Selection-2 bootdelay -2

Image authenticity

It shall not be possible to boot from an unverified image. The secure boot feature in U-Boot shall be enabled. The secure boot feature is available from U-Boot 2013.07 version. To enable the secure boot feature, enable the following features:

CONFIG_FIT: Enables support for Flat Image Tree (FIT) uImage format.
CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE: Enables signature verification of FIT images.
CONFIG_RSA: Enables RSA algorithm used for FIT image verification.
CONFIG_OF_CONTROL: Enables Flattened Device Tree (FDT) configuration.
CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE: Enables separate build of u-Boot from the device tree.
CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE: Specifies the default Device Tree used for the run-time configuration of U-Boot.

Generate the U-Boot image with public keys to validate and load the image. It shall use RSA2048 and SHA256 for authentication.

Domain Config name State
Boot-Image-Authenticity-1 CONFIG_FIT Enable
Boot-Image-Authenticity-2 CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE Enable
Boot-Image-Authenticity-3 CONFIG_RSA Enable
Boot-Image-Authenticity-4 CONFIG_OF_CONTROL Enable
Boot-Image-Authenticity-5 CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE Enable
Boot-Image-Authenticity-6 CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE Enable