Secure booting on beagleplay

anpa · July 4, 2025, 1:12pm

Hi everybody,

Is there a good documentation/articles/posts about secure boot on beagleplay?

Regards

RobertCNelson · July 4, 2025, 1:17pm

BeaglePlay uses GP silicon, so not supported…

anpa · July 4, 2025, 2:01pm

thx for reply, what a bummer.

RobertCNelson · July 4, 2025, 2:35pm

Secure boot is complex on am62, it requires hsfs silicon and a very a specific gpio pin back to the pmic… We screwed this up on the PocketBeagle2, so that one’s doesn’t work either.

HKPhysicist · July 9, 2025, 6:17pm

Secure Boot is available on some TI official boards. Contact them on their official forum for details.

anpa · July 21, 2025, 11:42am

thx for advice but I wanted beagleplay to enable secureboot. Maybe for future boards consider this option

jlu · July 22, 2025, 4:15pm

The feature list on https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/pocketbeagle-2 mentions “Secure boot supported”. Is that outdated?

RobertCNelson · July 22, 2025, 5:30pm

@jlu thank you! Yes that is misleading…

The “AM6254” supports Secure Boot but the “PocketBeagle2” Design does not (after TI tested)

I’ll nuke that point. @lorforlinux

Regards,

jlu · July 23, 2025, 7:02pm

Without Secure Boot, TEE support isn’t really useful either, as there’s no way to make sure that only trusted software has access to TrustZone…

Is there any chance that Secure Boot might be added in a future HW revision? It would be a pretty unique feature at this price.