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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>

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 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 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