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Denver is NVIDIA's own custom-designed, 64-bit, dual-core CPU which is
fully ARMv8 architecture compatible.  Each of the two Denver cores
implements a 7-way superscalar microarchitecture (up to 7 concurrent
micro-ops can be executed per clock), and includes a 128KB 4-way L1
instruction cache, a 64KB 4-way L1 data cache, and a 2MB 16-way L2
cache, which services both cores.

Denver implements an innovative process called Dynamic Code Optimization,
which optimizes frequently used software routines at runtime into dense,
highly tuned microcode-equivalent routines. These are stored in a
dedicated, 128MB main-memory-based optimization cache. After being read
into the instruction cache, the optimized micro-ops are executed,
re-fetched and executed from the instruction cache as long as needed and
capacity allows.

Effectively, this reduces the need to re-optimize the software routines.
Instead of using hardware to extract the instruction-level parallelism
(ILP) inherent in the code, Denver extracts the ILP once via software
techniques, and then executes those routines repeatedly, thus amortizing
the cost of ILP extraction over the many execution instances.

Denver also features new low latency power-state transitions, in addition
to extensive power-gating and dynamic voltage and clock scaling based on
workloads.
Signed-off-by: Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>

Some assembly files containing macros are included like header files
into other assembly files. This will cause assembler errors if they
are included multiple times.

Add header guards to assembly macro files to avoid assembler errors.

Change-Id: Ia632e767ed7df7bf507b294982b8d730a6f8fe69

This patch adds support for ARM Cortex-A72 processor in the CPU
specific framework.

Change-Id: I5986855fc1b875aadf3eba8c36e989d8a05e5175

This patch adds support to call the reset_handler() function in BL3-1 in the
cold and warm boot paths when another Boot ROM reset_handler() has already run.

This means the BL1 and BL3-1 versions of the CPU and platform specific reset
handlers may execute different code to each other. This enables a developer to
perform additional actions or undo actions already performed during the first
call of the reset handlers e.g. apply additional errata workarounds.

Typically, the reset handler will be first called from the BL1 Boot ROM. Any
additional functionality can be added to the reset handler when it is called
from BL3-1 resident in RW memory. The constant FIRST_RESET_HANDLER_CALL is used
to identify whether this is the first version of the reset handler code to be
executed or an overridden version of the code.

The Cortex-A57 errata workarounds are applied only if they have not already been
applied.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issue#275

Change-Id: Id295f106e4fda23d6736debdade2ac7f2a9a9053

This patch adds the initial port of the ARM Trusted Firmware on the Juno
development platform. This port does not support a BL3-2 image or any PSCI APIs
apart from PSCI_VERSION and PSCI_CPU_ON. It enables workarounds for selected
Cortex-A57 (#806969 & #813420) errata and implements the workaround for a Juno
platform errata (Defect id 831273).

Change-Id: Ib3d92df3af53820cfbb2977582ed0d7abf6ef893

This patch adds workarounds for selected errata which affect the Cortex-A57 r0p0
part. Each workaround has a build time flag which should be used by the platform
port to enable or disable the corresponding workaround. The workarounds are
disabled by default. An assertion is raised if the platform enables a workaround
which does not match the CPU revision at runtime.

Change-Id: I9ae96b01c6ff733d04dc733bd4e67dbf77b29fb0

This patch adds handlers for dumping Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 specific register
state to the CPU specific operations framework. The contents of CPUECTLR_EL1 are
dumped currently.

Change-Id: I63d3dbfc4ac52fef5e25a8cf6b937c6f0975c8ab

This patch adds CPU core and cluster power down sequences to the CPU specific
operations framework introduced in a earlier patch. Cortex-A53, Cortex-A57 and
generic AEM sequences have been added. The latter is suitable for the
Foundation and Base AEM FVPs. A pointer to each CPU's operations structure is
saved in the per-cpu data so that it can be easily accessed during power down
seqeunces.

An optional platform API has been introduced to allow a platform to disable the
Accelerator Coherency Port (ACP) during a cluster power down sequence. The weak
definition of this function (plat_disable_acp()) does not take any action. It
should be overriden with a strong definition if the ACP is present on a
platform.

Change-Id: I8d09bd40d2f528a28d2d3f19b77101178778685d