- 07 Mar, 2016 1 commit
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Antonio Nino Diaz authored
The previous reset code in BL1 performed the following steps in order: 1. Warm/Cold boot detection. If it's a warm boot, jump to warm boot entrypoint. 2. Primary/Secondary CPU detection. If it's a secondary CPU, jump to plat_secondary_cold_boot_setup(), which doesn't return. 3. CPU initialisations (cache, TLB...). 4. Memory and C runtime initialization. For a secondary CPU, steps 3 and 4 are never reached. This shouldn't be a problem in most cases, since current implementations of plat_secondary_cold_boot_setup() either panic or power down the secondary CPUs. The main concern is the lack of secondary CPU initialization when bare metal EL3 payloads are used in case they don't take care of this initialisation themselves. This patch moves the detection of primary/secondary CPU after step 3 so that the CPU initialisations are performed per-CPU, while the memory and the C runtime initialisation are only performed on the primary CPU. The diagrams used in the ARM Trusted Firmware Reset Design documentation file have been updated to reflect the new boot flow. Platforms ports might be affected by this patch depending on the behaviour of plat_secondary_cold_boot_setup(), as the state of the platform when entering this function will be different. Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#342 Change-Id: Icbf4a0ee2a3e5b856030064472f9fa6696f2eb9e
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- 15 Dec, 2015 1 commit
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Sandrine Bailleux authored
This patch introduces a new document presenting the ARM Trusted Firmware Reset Design. It shows the reset code flow, lists the different build options that affect it, in which case to use them and what their exact effect is. The section about using BL31 entrypoint as the reset address has been moved from the general firmware design document to this one. It's also been improved to explain why the FVP port supports the RESET_TO_BL31 configuration, even though the reset vector address can't be programmed dynamically. This document includes some images, which have been generated using Dia version 0.97.2. This tool can be obtained from: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/Download This patch provides: - the image files describing the different reset flow diagrams; - the source '.dia' file; - a script automating the generation of the images from the '.dia' file. Note that the 2 latter files are not actually needed for the document and are provided for convenience only, in case the reset images need to be modified. Change-Id: Ib6302e8209d418a5b31c4e85e55fd9e83caf2ca2
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