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Device Management Client 4.11.1

Important note on testing before upgrading:

Before upgrading deployed devices to a new version of Device Management Client, you must test that you can:

  • Perform a firmware-over-the-air update of a device with the new firmware image.
  • Perform an additional firmware-over-the-air update on the device with the new firmware image to check that you can update the new firmware image.

Device Management Client example

  • Updated to Parsec version 0.6.0. This version is compatible with Mbed TLS 2.27.0.

Factory Configurator Client example

  • Updated to Parsec version 0.6.0. This version is compatible with Mbed TLS 2.27.0.

Device Management Client

  • [Remote logging] Fixed internal flash configuration to perform a full storage erase before using the internal flash.
  • Fixed compiler warnings.

Known issues

  • The earlier revisions of LPCXpresso 546XX have a different QSPI chip than some of the later revisions. The application needs to specify the chip at compile time. Select the correct QSPI chip in the board configuration file (define_NXP_LPC54628.txt). This depends on the board revision.
  • [PAL tests] PAL file system and PAL update tests currently support external SD card storage. Future releases will add support for other storage types.
  • [PAL tests] PAL TLS test (TCPHandshakeWhileCertVerify_threads) isn't working on Mbed OS 5.13.0.

Mbed OS

We recommend you read the Mbed OS release notes for known issues and their latest status.

  • PSA is in preview level and as such isn't ready for production yet.
    • You can't update the precompiled PSA binary through firmware update. You can only update the application, itself.
    • K64F:
      • You can use the board in PSA mode (without real hardware PSA implementation).
      • The configuration file that allows this is placed under the configs-psa folder in the example.
      • The PSA mode adds RAM consumption (static +3.5KB) and flash/ROM consumption (+18.5KB).
      • Arm and Partners are optimizing the solution in future releases.

Linux

  • Firmware update installation of very large images on Raspberry Pi3B or Pi3B+ may result in a mmc0 timeout failure. This is a generic Raspberry Pi3 issue. See RPI issue #2392.
  • Firmware update from one Linux distribution version to another doesn't work. For example, firmware update from Yocto distribution Morty to Rocko is not currently possible because of Linux version-dependent files (device tree) in the BOOT partition. Therefore, you must update within one major version of a distribution.
  • glibc versions 2.23 and 2.24 have a bug in thread creation. It can cause random crashes with Linux. If possible, update glibc to version 2.25 (or later). See sourceware issue 20116 for details. We have implemented a workaround for this issue to decrease its likelihood. This issue may still occur under certain circumstances.
  • The Device Management Client application must run as root to have access rights to perform the firmware update. A more secure implementation will come later.
  • Yocto distribution has only been tested in developer certificate mode.
  • The Yocto distribution used doesn't yet support Raspberry Pi4.

Device Management Client Third Party IP report

Device Management Client uses some third-party IP (TPIP) components. This table lists the TPIP and sources:

Original License Description
bsdfiff BSD 2 Clause Diff algorithm used for delta update image generation.
LZ4 BSD 2 Clause (lz4.c and lz4.h under /lib in LZ4) Compression algorithm used for compressing delta update images.
TinyCBOR MIT Factory configurator client (FCC) uses TinyCBOR, which is a constrained node implementation of CBOR in C, with slight modifications. The code is at mbed-cloud-client/tinycbor and in a standalone repository in GitHub.
Unity MIT Platform Adaptation Layer (PAL) tests use Unity framework from ThrowTheSwitch. The code is at mbed-cloud-client/mbed-client-pal/Test/Unity.

NXP SDK

Additional TPIP for NXP SDK:

Original License Description
Amazon FreeRTOS kernel v10.2 MIT FreeRTOS kernel from Amazon.
lwIP Modified BSD Lightweight IP stack.
Platform support files BSD 3 Clause Platform specific files in platform/NXP.
LPC54608J512 Linker script BSD 3 Clause Linker script for GNU C.
LPC54xxx generated configuration files BSD 3 Clause Board-support specific generated files in pal-platform/SDK/LPCXpresso54628/generated.
LPC54xxx board support software Copyright NXP Board support software for LPC5400-series - we don't provide this; you must download this with MCUXpresso SDK Builder yourself.
MIMXRT106XXX Linker script BSD 3 Clause Linker script for GNU C.
EVK-MIMXRT1060 generated configuration files BSD 3 Clause Board-support specific generated files in pal-platform/SDK/EVK-MIMXRT1060/generated.
EVK-MIMXRT1060 board support software Copyright NXP Board support software for EVK-MIMXRT1060 - we don't provide this; you must download this with MCUXpresso SDK Builder yourself.

Keil SDK

Original License Description
Platform support files BSD 3 Clause Platform-specific files in platform/KEIL.
Platform adaptation layer files MIT Platform adaptation layer files in Source/Port/Reference-Impl/OS_Specific/RTX_MW.

Renesas SDK

Additional TPIP for Renesas SDK (FSP):

Original License Description
Amazon FreeRTOS kernel v10.3 MIT FreeRTOS kernel from Amazon.
Renesas Flexible Software Package (FSP) v1.0.0 Copyright (c) Renesas Board support package for RA6M3 boards. Running pal-platform.py will git clone this repository to your work area under pal-platform/SDK/Renesas_EK_RA6M3/fsp.
Renesas e2studio generated configuration files Copyright (c) Renesas Renesas e2studio generates a number of files, available in pal-platform/SDK/Renesas_EK_RA6M3/e2studio_gen.
lwIP Modified BSD Lightweight IP stack.
Platform support files BSD 3 Clause Platform specific files in platform/Renesas_EK_RA6M3.
Platform adaptation layer files MIT Platform adaptation layer files in Source/Port/Reference-Impl/OS_Specific/Renesas_EK_RA6M3.

Secure Device Access (SDA)

If you enable Secure Device Access (SDA), you will use some additional TPIP:

Original License Description
cose-c BSD 3 Clause IETF Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) Encoded Message Syntax (COSE) - a copy of this library is located under mbed-cloud-client/tree/master/secure-device-access-client/cose-c.

Mbed OS

You also get more TPIP with the Mbed OS release, itself. See its LICENSE.md file for details.

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