1. 24 Jul, 2019 1 commit
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      Factor out cross-BL API into export headers suitable for 3rd party code · 57bf6057
      Julius Werner authored
      
      
      This patch adds a new include/export/ directory meant for inclusion in
      third-party code. This is useful for cases where third-party code needs
      to interact with TF-A interfaces and data structures (such as a custom
      BL2-implementation like coreboot handing off to BL31). Directly
      including headers from the TF-A repository avoids having to duplicate
      all these definitions (and risk them going stale), but with the current
      header structure this is not possible because handoff API definitions
      are too deeply intertwined with other TF code/headers and chain-include
      other headers that will not be available in the other environment.
      
      The new approach aims to solve this by separating only the parts that
      are really needed into these special headers that are self-contained and
      will not chain-include other (non-export) headers. TF-A code should
      never include them directly but should instead always include the
      respective wrapper header, which will include the required prerequisites
      (like <stdint.h>) before including the export header. Third-party code
      can include the export headers via its own wrappers that make sure the
      necessary definitions are available in whatever way that environment can
      provide them.
      
      Change-Id: Ifd769320ba51371439a8e5dd5b79c2516c3b43ab
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
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