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    Add descriptor based image management support in BL1 · 7baff11f
    Yatharth Kochar authored
    As of now BL1 loads and execute BL2 based on hard coded information
    provided in BL1. But due to addition of support for upcoming Firmware
    Update feature, BL1 now require more flexible approach to load and
    run different images using information provided by the platform.
    
    This patch adds new mechanism to load and execute images based on
    platform provided image id's. BL1 now queries the platform to fetch
    the image id of the next image to be loaded and executed. In order
    to achieve this, a new struct image_desc_t was added which holds the
    information about images, such as: ep_info and image_info.
    
    This patch introduces following platform porting functions:
    
    unsigned int bl1_plat_get_next_image_id(void);
    	This is used to identify the next image to be loaded
    	and executed by BL1.
    
    struct image_desc *bl1_plat_get_image_desc(unsigned int image_id);
    	This is used to retrieve the image_desc for given image_id.
    
    void bl1_plat_set_ep_info(unsigned int image_id,
    struct entry_point_info *ep_info);
    	This function allows platforms to update ep_info for given
    	image_id.
    
    The plat_bl1_common.c file provides default weak implementations of
    all above functions, the `bl1_plat_get_image_desc()` always return
    BL2 image descriptor, the `bl1_plat_get_next_image_id()` always return
    BL2 image ID and `bl1_plat_set_ep_info()` is empty and just returns.
    These functions gets compiled into all BL1 platforms by default.
    
    Platform setup in BL1, using `bl1_platform_setup()`, is now done
    _after_ the initialization of authentication module. This change
    provides the opportunity to use authentication while doing the
    platform setup in BL1.
    
    In order to store secure/non-secure context, BL31 uses percpu_data[]
    to store context pointer for each core. In case of BL1 only the
    primary CPU will be active hence percpu_data[] is not required to
    store the context pointer.
    
    This patch introduce bl1_cpu_context[] and bl1_cpu_context_ptr[] to
    store the context and context pointers respectively. It also also
    re-defines cm_get_context() and cm_set_context() for BL1 in
    bl1/bl1_context_mgmt.c.
    
    BL1 now follows the BL31 pattern of using SP_EL0 for the C runtime
    environment, to support resuming execution from a previously saved
    context.
    
    NOTE: THE `bl1_plat_set_bl2_ep_info()` PLATFORM PORTING FUNCTION IS
          NO LONGER CALLED BY BL1 COMMON CODE. PLATFORMS THAT OVERRIDE
          THIS FUNCTION MAY NEED TO IMPLEMENT `bl1_plat_set_ep_info()`
          INSTEAD TO MAINTAIN EXISTING BEHAVIOUR.
    
    Change-Id: Ieee4c124b951c2e9bc1c1013fa2073221195d881
    7baff11f
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