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The SCP firmware on the ARM FPGA initialises the UART already. This allows
us to treat the PL011 as an SBSA Generic UART, which does not require
any further setup.

This in particular removes the need for any baudrate and base clock related
settings to be hard coded into the BL31 image.

Change-Id: I16fc943526267356b97166a7068459e06ff77f0f
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

The arm_fpga platform code contains an dubious line to initialise some
timer. On closer inspection this turn out to be bogus, as this was only
needed on some special (older) FPGA board, and is actually not needed on
the current model. Also the base address was wrong anyways.

Remove the code entirely.

Change-Id: I02e71aea645051b5addb42d972d7a79f04b81106
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

with commit a6ea06f5

, the way platform includes gicv3 files has been
modified, this patch adapts to new method of including gicv3 files
for arm_fpga platform.
Signed-off-by: Manish Pandey <manish.pandey2@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ic5ccae842b39b7db06d4f23c5738b174c42edf63

Signed-off-by: Javier Almansa Sobrino <javier.almansasobrino@arm.com>
Change-Id: I397b642eff8a09b201f497f8d2ba39e2460c0dba

This change is part of the goal of enabling the port to be compatible
with multiple FPGA images.

BL31 behaves differently depending on whether or not the CPUs in the
system use cache coherency, and as a result any CPU libraries that are
compiled together must serve processors that are consistent in this
regard.

This compiles a different set of CPU libraries depending on whether or
not the HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY is enabled at build-time to indicate the
CPUs support hardware-level support for cache coherency. This build
flag is used in the makefile in the same way as the Arm FVP port.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: I18300b4443176b89767015e3688c0f315a91c27e

This allows the BL31 port to run with position-independent execution
enabled so that it can be ran from any address in the system.
This increases the flexibility of the image, allowing it to be ran from
other locations rather than only its hardcoded absolute address
(currently set to the typical DRAM base of 2GB). This may be useful for
future images that describe system configurations with other memory
layouts (e.g. where SRAM is included).

It does this by setting ENABLE_PIE=1 and changing the absolute
address to 0. The load address of bl31.bin can then be specified by
the -l [load address] argument in the fpga-run command (additionally,
this address is required by any preceding payloads that specify the
start address. For ELF payloads this is usually extracted automatically
by reading the entrypoint address in the header, however bl31.bin is a
different file format so has this additional dependency).
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: Idd74787796ab0cf605fe2701163d9c4b3223a143

This change is part of the goal of enabling the port to be compatible
with multiple FPGA images.

The BL31 port that is uploaded as a payload to the FPGA with an image
should cater for a wide variety of system configurations. This patch
makes the necessary changes to enable it to function with images whose
cluster configurations may be larger (either by utilizing more
clusters, more CPUs per cluster, more threads in each CPU, or a
combination) than the initial image being used for testing.

As part of this, the hard-coded values that configure the size of the
array describing the topology of the power domain tree are increased
to max. 8 clusters, max. 8 cores per cluster & max 4 threads per core.
This ensures the port works with cluster configurations up to these
sizes. When there are too many entries for the number of available PEs,
e.g. if there is a variable number of CPUs between clusters, then there
will be empty entries in the array. This is permitted and the PSCI
library will still function as expected. While this increases its size,
this shouldn't be an issue in the context of the size of BL31, and is
worth the trade-off for the extra compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: I7d4ae1e20b2e99fdbac428d122a2cf9445394363

This initializes the GIC using the Arm GIC drivers in TF-A.
The initial FPGA image uses a GIC600 implementation, and so that its
power controller is enabled, this platform port calls the corresponding
implementation-specific routines.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: I88d5a073eead4b653b1ca73273182cd98a95e4c5

This sets the frequency of the system counter so that the Delay Timer
driver programs the correct value to CNTCRL. This value depends on
the FPGA image being used, and is 10MHz for the initial test image.
Once configured, the BL31 platform setup sequence then enables the
system counter.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ieb036a36fd990f350b5953357424a255b8ac5d5a

This adds a basic PSCI implementation allow secondary CPUs to be
released from an initial state and continue through to the warm boot
entrypoint.

Each secondary CPU is kept in a holding pen, whereby it polls the value
representing its hold state, by reading this from an array that acts as
a table for all the PEs. The hold states are initially set to 0 for all
cores to indicate that the executing core should continue polling.
To prevent the secondary CPUs from interfering with the platform's
initialization, they are only updated by the primary CPU once the cold
boot sequence has completed and fpga_pwr_domain_on(mpidr) is called.
The polling target CPU will then read 1 (which indicates that it should
branch to the warm reset entrypoint) and then jump to that address
rather than continue polling.

In addition to the initial polling behaviour of the secondary CPUs
before their warm boot reset sequence, they are also placed in a
low-power wfe() state at the end of each poll; accordingly, the PSCI
fpga_pwr_domain_on(mpidr) function also signals an event to all cores
(after updating the target CPU's hold entry) to wake them from this
state, allowing any secondary CPUs that are still polling to check
their hold state again.
This method is in accordance with both the PSCI and Linux kernel
recommendations, as the lessened overhead reduces the energy
consumption associated with the busy-loop.

The table of hold entries is implemented by a global array as shared SRAM
(which is used by other platforms in similar implementations) is not
available on the FPGA images.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: I65cfd1892f8be1dfcb285f0e1e94e7a9870cdf5a

This makes use of the PRELOADED_BL33_BASE flag to indicate to BL31 that
the BL33 payload (kernel) has already been loaded and resides in memory;
BL31 will then jump to the non-secure address.

For this port the BL33 payload is the Linux kernel, and in accordance
with the pre-kernel setup requirements (as specified in the `Booting
AArch64 Linux' documentation:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt

),
this change also sets up the primary CPU's registers x0-x3 so they are
the expected values, which includes the address of the DTB at x0.

An external linker script is currently required to combine BL31, the
BL33 payload, and any other software images to create an ELF file that
can be uploaded to the FPGA board along with the bit file. It therefore
has dependencies on the value of PRELOADED_BL33_BASE (kernel base) and
the DTB base (plus any other relevant base addresses used to
distinguish the different ELF sections), both of which are set in this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: If7ae8ee82d1e09fb05f553f6077ae13680dbf66b

This adds the minimal functions and definitions to create a basic
BL31 port for an initial FPGA image, in order for the port to be
uploaded to one the FPGA boards operated by an internal group within
Arm, such that BL31 runs as a payload for an image.

Future changes will enable the port for a wide range of system
configurations running on the FPGA boards to ensure compatibility with
multiple FPGA images.

It is expected that this will replace the FPGA fork of the Linux kernel
bootwrapper by performing similar secure-world initialization and setup
through the use of drivers and other well-established methods, before
passing control to the kernel, which will act as the BL33 payload and
run in EL2NS.

This change introduces a basic, loadable port with the console
initialized by setting the baud rate and base address of the UART as
configured by the Zeus image.

It is a BL31-only port, and RESET_TO_BL31 is enabled to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Swede <oli.swede@arm.com>
Change-Id: I1817ad81be00afddcdbbda1ab70eb697203178e2