diff --git a/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_bl31_setup.c b/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_bl31_setup.c
index 3a9514bda92e9b86c311c680268c783ae315c4c7..b1e55730eb21082d2e31aaaea7279fa93fe2cb3d 100644
--- a/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_bl31_setup.c
+++ b/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_bl31_setup.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -193,6 +193,16 @@ void bl31_platform_setup(void)
 	INFO("BL3-1: Tegra platform setup complete\n");
 }
 
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Perform any BL3-1 platform runtime setup prior to BL3-1 cold boot exit
+ ******************************************************************************/
+void bl31_plat_runtime_setup(void)
+{
+	/* Initialize the runtime console */
+	console_init(tegra_console_base, TEGRA_BOOT_UART_CLK_IN_HZ,
+		TEGRA_CONSOLE_BAUDRATE);
+}
+
 /*******************************************************************************
  * Perform the very early platform specific architectural setup here. At the
  * moment this only intializes the mmu in a quick and dirty way.