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The boolean build option HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY is introduced to enable
various optimizations in ARM Trusted Software, when built for such
systems. It's set to 0 by default.

Change-Id: I638390da6e1718fe024dcf5b402e07084f1eb014
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

The ARMv8v.1 architecture extension has introduced support for far
atomics, which includes compare-and-swap. Compare and Swap instruction
is only available for AArch64.

Introduce build options to choose the architecture versions to target
ARM Trusted Firmware:

  - ARM_ARCH_MAJOR: selects the major version of target ARM
    Architecture. Default value is 8.

  - ARM_ARCH_MINOR: selects the minor version of target ARM
    Architecture. Default value is 0.

When:

  (ARM_ARCH_MAJOR > 8) || ((ARM_ARCH_MAJOR == 8) && (ARM_ARCH_MINOR >= 1)),

for AArch64, Compare and Swap instruction is used to implement spin
locks. Otherwise, the implementation falls back to using
load-/store-exclusive instructions.

Update user guide, and introduce a section in Firmware Design guide to
summarize support for features introduced in ARMv8 Architecture
Extensions.

Change-Id: I73096a0039502f7aef9ec6ab3ae36680da033f16
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

The current fiptool packs all the images without any padding between
them.  So, the offset to each image has no alignment.  This is not
efficient, for example, when the FIP is read from a block-oriented
device.

For example, (e)MMC is accessed by block-addressing.  The block size
is 512 byte.  So, the best case is each image is aligned by 512 byte
since the DMA engine can transfer the whole of the image to its load
address directly.  The worst case is the offset does not have even
DMA-capable alignment (this is where we stand now).  In this case,
we need to transfer every block to a bounce buffer, then do memcpy()
from the bounce buffer to our final destination.  At least, this
should work with the abstraction by the block I/O layer, but the
CPU-intervention for the whole data transfer makes it really slow.

This commit adds a new option --align to the fiptool.  This option,
if given, requests the tool to align each component in the FIP file
by the specified byte.  Also, add a new Make option FIP_ALIGN for
easier access to this feature; users can give something like
FIP_ALIGN=512 from the command line, or add "FIP_ALIGN := 512" to
their platform.mk file.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

When build variables are assigned or processed en masse, they'd appear
neater in alphabetical order.

Static initializations are moved to a separate file,
make_helpers/defaults.mk, which in itself is sorted alphabetically.

No functional changes.

Change-Id: I966010042b33de6b67592fb9ffcef8fc44d7d128
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>