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Re: [Suit] Introducing draft-moran-suit-manifest-04

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 11 April 2019 17:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Suit] Introducing draft-moran-suit-manifest-04
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David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org> wrote:
    >> Reboot resilience for “swap” is probably outside the scope of this draft.
    >> Adding a condition to check the success marker might be useful.

    > I'm not sure it really even makes sense to describe the reboot
    > resilience in the manifest.  At least for swap, it is a large number
    > of steps that have to be done carefully, along with a lot of extra
    > state that is written every step.  I would think this intermediate
    > state is beyond the scape of the manifest.

    > For those interested, I've thrown together a bit of an amination
    > describing how the swap operation works in MCUboot, including at least
    > part of its state.

    > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXjw2l0Cd0

    > I'm not actually sure it is even going to make very much sense for
    > MCUboot to follow steps in the manifest, rather than just verifying
    > that they are present.  The steps make sense for the download
    > application.

Very nice animation.
It really seems like the swap operation does by MCUboot ought to be below the
level of the manifest instructions.

    > One difficulty I see following steps in the manifest is that the code
    > currently maintains state out-of-band from the manifest.  The current
    > state is:

That suggests to me that maybe we need to make the state explicit in the
information model associated with the manifest.

    > Any thoughts on what is appropriate to even represent in the manifest?
    > The two instructions that the bootloader would follow would be "swap"
    > or "apply" (depending on configuration), and "run".  Right now, we
    > distinguish swap vs copy by whether the new image contains the "image
    > ok" marker, but having two instructions could distinguish this as
    > well.

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