Commit d1ce4469 authored by Paul Beesley's avatar Paul Beesley
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doc: Minor readme structure improvements



Improves wording and sentence structure of the readme, including:

- Using "TF-A" in place of "the TF-A" in a couple of places
- "Support for X" in place of "Support X"
- Explicitly naming the Secure Payload Dispatcher when introducing the
  SPD acronym.

Change-Id: I4e7b7e7dc6748f631d07c02d97adcca10ae60ea4
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
parent be8b4d19
......@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This release
This release provides a suitable starting point for productization of secure
world boot and runtime firmware, in either the AArch32 or AArch64 execution
state.
states.
Users are encouraged to do their own security validation, including penetration
testing, on any secure world code derived from TF-A.
......@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ Functionality
- Secure Monitor library code such as world switching, EL1 context management
and interrupt routing.
When a Secure-EL1 Payload (SP) is present, for example a Secure OS, the
AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software must be integrated with a dispatcher component
(SPD) to customize the interaction with the SP.
AArch64 EL3 Runtime Software must be integrated with a Secure Payload
Dispatcher (SPD) component to customize the interaction with the SP.
- A Test SP/SPD to demonstrate AArch64 Secure Monitor functionality and SP
- A Test SP and SPD to demonstrate AArch64 Secure Monitor functionality and SP
interaction with PSCI.
- SPDs for the `OP-TEE Secure OS`_, `NVIDIA Trusted Little Kernel`_
......@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ Functionality
- Support for the GCC, LLVM and Arm Compiler 6 toolchains.
- Support combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image, that
may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image
- Support for combining several libraries into a self-called "romlib" image
that may be shared across images to reduce memory footprint. The romlib image
is stored in ROM but is accessed through a jump-table that may be stored
in read-write memory, allowing for the library code to be patched.
......@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ provides details of changes made since the last release.
Platforms
~~~~~~~~~
Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release has been tested on variants
r0, r1 and r2 of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_.
Various AArch32 and AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on r0, r1
and r2 variants of the `Juno Arm Development Platform`_.
Various AArch64 builds of this release have been tested on the following Arm
Fixed Virtual Platforms (`FVP`_) without shifted affinities that do not
......@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@ Getting started
Get the TF-A source code from `GitHub`_.
See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to install, build and use
the TF-A with the Arm `FVP`_\ s.
See the `User Guide`_ for instructions on how to install, build and use TF-A
with the Arm `FVP`_\ s.
See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how the TF-A works.
See the `Firmware Design`_ for information on how TF-A works.
See the `Porting Guide`_ as well for information about how to use this
software on another Armv7-A or Armv8-A platform.
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