diff --git a/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_sip_calls.c b/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_sip_calls.c
index 2c3be60f76e545f2665aa00886156e18f0134d51..e7acecea44d3276e4930028c37eb1ee16964c91e 100644
--- a/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_sip_calls.c
+++ b/plat/nvidia/tegra/common/tegra_sip_calls.c
@@ -31,12 +31,11 @@
  ******************************************************************************/
 extern uint8_t tegra_fake_system_suspend;
 
-
 /*******************************************************************************
  * SoC specific SiP handler
  ******************************************************************************/
 #pragma weak plat_sip_handler
-int plat_sip_handler(uint32_t smc_fid,
+int32_t plat_sip_handler(uint32_t smc_fid,
 		     uint64_t x1,
 		     uint64_t x2,
 		     uint64_t x3,
@@ -75,108 +74,111 @@ uintptr_t tegra_sip_handler(uint32_t smc_fid,
 
 	/* Check if this is a SoC specific SiP */
 	err = plat_sip_handler(smc_fid, x1, x2, x3, x4, cookie, handle, flags);
-	if (err == 0)
-		SMC_RET1(handle, (uint64_t)err);
-
-	switch (smc_fid) {
-
-	case TEGRA_SIP_NEW_VIDEOMEM_REGION:
-
-		/* clean up the high bits */
-		x2 = (uint32_t)x2;
-
-		/*
-		 * Check if Video Memory overlaps TZDRAM (contains bl31/bl32)
-		 * or falls outside of the valid DRAM range
-		 */
-		err = bl31_check_ns_address(x1, x2);
-		if (err)
-			SMC_RET1(handle, err);
+	if (err == 0) {
 
-		/*
-		 * Check if Video Memory is aligned to 1MB.
-		 */
-		if ((x1 & 0xFFFFF) || (x2 & 0xFFFFF)) {
-			ERROR("Unaligned Video Memory base address!\n");
-			SMC_RET1(handle, -ENOTSUP);
-		}
-
-		/*
-		 * The GPU is the user of the Video Memory region. In order to
-		 * transition to the new memory region smoothly, we program the
-		 * new base/size ONLY if the GPU is in reset mode.
-		 */
-		regval = mmio_read_32(TEGRA_CAR_RESET_BASE +
-				      TEGRA_GPU_RESET_REG_OFFSET);
-		if ((regval & GPU_RESET_BIT) == 0U) {
-			ERROR("GPU not in reset! Video Memory setup failed\n");
-			SMC_RET1(handle, -ENOTSUP);
-		}
-
-		/* new video memory carveout settings */
-		tegra_memctrl_videomem_setup(x1, x2);
-
-		SMC_RET1(handle, 0);
-		break;
+		SMC_RET1(handle, (uint64_t)err);
 
-	/*
-	 * The NS world registers the address of its handler to be
-	 * used for processing the FIQ. This is normally used by the
-	 * NS FIQ debugger driver to detect system hangs by programming
-	 * a watchdog timer to fire a FIQ interrupt.
-	 */
-	case TEGRA_SIP_FIQ_NS_ENTRYPOINT:
+	} else {
+
+		switch (smc_fid) {
+
+		case TEGRA_SIP_NEW_VIDEOMEM_REGION:
+
+			/* clean up the high bits */
+			x2 = (uint32_t)x2;
+
+			/*
+			 * Check if Video Memory overlaps TZDRAM (contains bl31/bl32)
+			 * or falls outside of the valid DRAM range
+			*/
+			err = bl31_check_ns_address(x1, x2);
+			if (err != 0) {
+				SMC_RET1(handle, (uint64_t)err);
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * Check if Video Memory is aligned to 1MB.
+			 */
+			if (((x1 & 0xFFFFFU) != 0U) || ((x2 & 0xFFFFFU) != 0U)) {
+				ERROR("Unaligned Video Memory base address!\n");
+				SMC_RET1(handle, -ENOTSUP);
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * The GPU is the user of the Video Memory region. In order to
+			 * transition to the new memory region smoothly, we program the
+			 * new base/size ONLY if the GPU is in reset mode.
+			 */
+			regval = mmio_read_32(TEGRA_CAR_RESET_BASE +
+					      TEGRA_GPU_RESET_REG_OFFSET);
+			if ((regval & GPU_RESET_BIT) == 0UL) {
+				ERROR("GPU not in reset! Video Memory setup failed\n");
+				SMC_RET1(handle, -ENOTSUP);
+			}
+
+			/* new video memory carveout settings */
+			tegra_memctrl_videomem_setup(x1, (uint32_t)x2);
 
-		if (!x1)
-			SMC_RET1(handle, SMC_UNK);
+			SMC_RET1(handle, 0);
 
 		/*
-		 * TODO: Check if x1 contains a valid DRAM address
+		 * The NS world registers the address of its handler to be
+		 * used for processing the FIQ. This is normally used by the
+		 * NS FIQ debugger driver to detect system hangs by programming
+		 * a watchdog timer to fire a FIQ interrupt.
 		 */
+		case TEGRA_SIP_FIQ_NS_ENTRYPOINT:
 
-		/* store the NS world's entrypoint */
-		tegra_fiq_set_ns_entrypoint(x1);
-
-		SMC_RET1(handle, 0);
-		break;
-
-	/*
-	 * The NS world's FIQ handler issues this SMC to get the NS EL1/EL0
-	 * CPU context when the FIQ interrupt was triggered. This allows the
-	 * NS world to understand the CPU state when the watchdog interrupt
-	 * triggered.
-	 */
-	case TEGRA_SIP_FIQ_NS_GET_CONTEXT:
+			if (x1 == 0U) {
+				SMC_RET1(handle, SMC_UNK);
+			}
 
-		/* retrieve context registers when FIQ triggered */
-		tegra_fiq_get_intr_context();
+			/*
+			 * TODO: Check if x1 contains a valid DRAM address
+			 */
 
-		SMC_RET0(handle);
-		break;
+			/* store the NS world's entrypoint */
+			tegra_fiq_set_ns_entrypoint(x1);
 
-	case TEGRA_SIP_ENABLE_FAKE_SYSTEM_SUSPEND:
-		/*
-		 * System suspend fake mode is set if we are on VDK and we make
-		 * a debug SIP call. This mode ensures that we excercise debug
-		 * path instead of the regular code path to suit the pre-silicon
-		 * platform needs. These include replacing the call to WFI by
-		 * a warm reset request.
-		 */
-		if (tegra_platform_is_emulation() != 0U) {
-
-			tegra_fake_system_suspend = 1;
 			SMC_RET1(handle, 0);
-		}
 
 		/*
-		 * We return to the external world as if this SIP is not
-		 * implemented in case, we are not running on VDK.
+		 * The NS world's FIQ handler issues this SMC to get the NS EL1/EL0
+		 * CPU context when the FIQ interrupt was triggered. This allows the
+		 * NS world to understand the CPU state when the watchdog interrupt
+		 * triggered.
 		 */
-		break;
-
-	default:
-		ERROR("%s: unhandled SMC (0x%x)\n", __func__, smc_fid);
-		break;
+		case TEGRA_SIP_FIQ_NS_GET_CONTEXT:
+
+			/* retrieve context registers when FIQ triggered */
+			(void)tegra_fiq_get_intr_context();
+
+			SMC_RET0(handle);
+
+		case TEGRA_SIP_ENABLE_FAKE_SYSTEM_SUSPEND:
+			/*
+			 * System suspend fake mode is set if we are on VDK and we make
+			 * a debug SIP call. This mode ensures that we excercise debug
+			 * path instead of the regular code path to suit the pre-silicon
+			 * platform needs. These include replacing the call to WFI by
+			 * a warm reset request.
+			 */
+			if (tegra_platform_is_virt_dev_kit() != false) {
+
+				tegra_fake_system_suspend = 1;
+				SMC_RET1(handle, 0);
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * We return to the external world as if this SIP is not
+			 * implemented in case, we are not running on VDK.
+			 */
+			break;
+
+		default:
+			ERROR("%s: unhandled SMC (0x%x)\n", __func__, smc_fid);
+			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 	SMC_RET1(handle, SMC_UNK);