Enable mapping higher physical address
Current ATF uses a direct physical-to-virtual mapping, that is, a physical address is mapped to the same address in the virtual space. For example, physical address 0x8000_0000 is mapped to 0x8000_0000 virtual. This approach works fine for FVP as all its physical addresses fall into 0 to 4GB range. But for other platform where all I/O addresses are 48-bit long, If we follow the same direct mapping, we would need virtual address range from 0 to 0x8fff_ffff_ffff, which is about 144TB. This requires a significant amount of memory for MMU tables and it is not necessary to use that much virtual space in ATF. The patch is to enable mapping a physical address range to an arbitrary virtual address range (instead of flat mapping) Changed "base" to "base_va" and added "base_pa" in mmap_region_t and modified functions such as mmap_add_region and init_xlation_table etc. Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#158
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