High Assurance Boot (HAB) for i.MX6 CPUs To authenticate U-Boot only by the CPU there is no code required in U-Boot itself. However, the U-Boot image to be programmed into the boot media needs to be properly constructed, i.e. it must contain a proper Command Sequence File (CSF). The Initial Vector Table contains a pointer to the CSF. Please see doc/README.imximage for how to prepare u-boot.imx. The CSF itself is being generated by Freescale HAB tools. mkimage will output additional information about "HAB Blocks" which can be used in the Freescale tooling to authenticate U-Boot (entries in the CSF file). Image Type: Freescale IMX Boot Image Image Ver: 2 (i.MX53/6 compatible) Data Size: 327680 Bytes = 320.00 kB = 0.31 MB Load Address: 177ff420 Entry Point: 17800000 HAB Blocks: 177ff400 00000000 0004dc00 ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ | | | | | -------- (1) | | | ------------------- (2) | --------------------------- (3) (1) Size of area in file u-boot.imx to sign This area should include the IVT, the Boot Data the DCD and U-Boot itself. (2) Start of area in u-boot.imx to sign (3) Start of area in RAM to authenticate CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT currently enables only an additional command 'hab_status' in U-Boot to retrieve the HAB status and events. This can be useful while developing and testing HAB. Commands to generate a signed U-Boot using Freescale HAB tools: cst --o U-Boot_CSF.bin < U-Boot.CSF objcopy -I binary -O binary --pad-to 0x2000 --gap-fill=0x00 \ U-Boot_CSF.bin U-Boot_CSF_pad.bin cat u-boot.imx U-Boot_CSF_pad.bin > u-boot-signed.imx NOTE: U-Boot_CSF.bin needs to be padded to the value specified in the imximage.cfg file.