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We have noticed that Phabricator (the ticketing system on tf.org [1])
has far less visibility within the community than the mailing list [2].
For this reason, let's drop usage of Phabricator for anything else than
bug reports. For the rest, advise contributors to start a discussion on
the mailing list, where they are more likely to get feedback.

[1] https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/project/board/1/
[2] https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/mailman/listinfo/tf-a



Change-Id: I7d2d3d305ad0a0f8aacc2a2f25eb5ff429853a3f
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

All projects under the TrustedFirmware.org project now use the same
security incident process, therefore update the disclosure/vulnerability
reporting information in the TF-A documentation.

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/!\ IMPORTANT /!\

Please note that the email address to send these reports to has changed.
Please do *not* use trusted-firmware-security@arm.com anymore.

Similarly, the PGP key provided to encrypt emails to the security email
alias has changed as well. Please do *not* use the former one provided
in the TF-A source tree. It is recommended to remove it from your
keyring to avoid any mistake. Please use the new key provided on
TrustedFirmware.org from now on.
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Change-Id: I14eb61017ab99182f1c45d1e156b96d5764934c1
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Most of the changes consist in using the new code owners terminology
(from [1]).

[1] https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/w/collaboration/project-maintenance-process/



Change-Id: Icead20e9335af12aa47d3f1ac5d04ca157b20c82
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

This patch adds information on the PMU configuration registers
and security considerations related to the PMU.
Signed-off-by: Petre-Ionut Tudor <petre-ionut.tudor@arm.com>
Change-Id: I36b15060b9830a77d3f47f293c0a6dafa3c581fb

This patch expands the coding style documentation, splitting it
into two documents: the core style rules and extended guidelines.
Note that it does not redefine or change the coding style (aside
from section 4.6.2) - generally, it is only documenting the
existing style in more detail.

The aim is for the coding style to be more readable and, in turn,
for it to be followed by more people. We can use this as a more
concrete reference when discussing the accepted style with external
contributors.

Change-Id: I87405ace9a879d7f81e6b0b91b93ca69535e50ff
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petre-Ionut Tudor <petre-ionut.tudor@arm.com>

-Wpadded warns whenever the C compiler automatically includes any
padding in a structure. Because TF-A has a large number of structures,
this occurs fairly frequently and is incredibly verbose, and as such is
unlikely to ever be fixed.

The utility of this warning is also extremely limited - knowing that a
structure includes padding does not point to the existence of an error,
and is probably quite unlikely to indicate actually buggy behaviour.
Therefore, it's probably best to keep this warning off at all times.

Change-Id: I0797cb75f06b4fea0d2fdc16fd5ad978a31d76ec
Signed-off-by: Justin Chadwell <justin.chadwell@arm.com>

The User Guide document has grown organically over time and
now covers a wide range of topics, making it difficult to
skim read and extract information from. Currently, it covers
these topics and maybe a couple more:

- Requirements (hardware, tools, libs)
- Checking out the repo
- Basic build instructions
- A comprehensive list of build flags
- FIP packaging
- Building specifically for Juno
- Firmware update images
- EL3 payloads
- Preloaded BL33 boot flow
- Running on FVPs
- Running on Juno

I have separated these out into a few groups that become new
documents. Broadly speaking, build instructions for the tools,
for TF-A generally, and for specific scenarios are separated.
Content relating to specific platforms (Juno and the FVPs are
Arm-specific platforms, essentially) has been moved into the
documentation that is specific to those platforms, under
docs/plat/arm.

Change-Id: Ica87c52d8cd4f577332be0b0738998ea3ba3bbec
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Both -Wmissing-field-initializers and -Wsign-compare are both covered by
-Wextra which is enabled at W=1 anyway. Therefore, the explicit options
are not required.

Change-Id: I2e7d95b5fc14af7c70895859a7ebbeac5bc0d2a4
Signed-off-by: Justin Chadwell <justin.chadwell@arm.com>

The index.rst page is now the primary landing page for the TF-A
documentation. It contains quite a lot of content these days,
including:

- The project purpose and general intro
- A list of functionality
- A list of planned functionality
- A list of supported platforms
- "Getting started" links to other documents
- Contact information for raising issues

This patch creates an "About" chapter in the table
of contents and moves some content there. In order,
the above listed content:

- Stayed where it is. This is the right place for it.
- Moved to About->Features
- Moved to About->Features (in subsection)
- Stayed where it is. Moved in a later patch.
- Was expanded in-place
- Moved to About->Contact

Change-Id: I254bb87560fd09140b9e485cf15246892aa45943
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Tidying up a few Sphinx warnings that had built-up over time.
None of these are critical but it cleans up the Sphinx output.

At the same time, fixing some spelling errors that were detected.

Change-Id: I38209e235481eed287f8008c6de9dedd6b12ab2e
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Currently links between documents are using the format:

<path/to/><filename>.rst

This was required for services like GitHub because they render each
document in isolation - linking to another document is like linking
to any other file, just provide the full path.

However, with the new approach, the .rst files are only the raw
source for the documents. Once the documents have been rendered
the output is now in another format (HTML in our case) and so,
when linking to another document, the link must point to the
rendered version and not the .rst file.

The RST spec provides a few methods for linking between content.
The parent of this patch enabled the automatic creation of anchors
for document titles - we will use these anchors as the targets for
our links. Additional anchors can be added by hand if needed, on
section and sub-section titles, for example.

An example of this new format, for a document with the title
"Firmware Design" is :ref:`Firmware Design`.

One big advantage of this is that anchors are not dependent on
paths. We can then move documents around, even between directories,
without breaking any links between documents. Links will need to be
updated only if the title of a document changes.

Change-Id: I9e2340a61dd424cbd8fd1ecc2dc166f460d81703
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ic5aab23b549d0bf8e0f7053b46fd59243214aac1
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ibdee91ad337ee362872924d93e82f5b5e47e63d9
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Credit to sam.ellis@arm.com for the input to create the list.

Change-Id: Id70a8eddc5f2490811bebb278482c61950f10cce
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ifef4d634b4a34d23f42f61df5e326a1cc05d3844
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Reference security specific build options from the user guide.

Change-Id: I0e1efbf47d914cf3c473104175c702ff1a80eb67
Signed-off-by: Ambroise Vincent <ambroise.vincent@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ib021c721652d96f6c06ea18741f19a72bba1d00f
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

1) Replace references to "Arm Trusted Firmware" with "TF-A"
2) Update issue tracker link

Change-Id: I12d827d49f6cc34e46936d7f7ccf44e32b26a0bd
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

The documentation contains plenty of notes and warnings. Enable
special rendering of these blocks by converting the note prefix
into a .. note:: annotation.

Change-Id: I34e26ca6bf313d335672ab6c2645741900338822
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Several code blocks do not specify a language for syntax
highlighting. This results in Sphinx using a default highlighter
which is Python.

This patch adds the correct language to each code block that doesn't
already specify it.

Change-Id: Icce1949aabfdc11a334a42d49edf55fa673cddc3
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

These are no longer needed as there will always be a table of contents
rendered to the left of every page.

Some of these lists can be quite long and, when opening a page, the
reader sees nothing but a huge list of contents! After this patch,
the document contents are front-and-centre and the contents are
nicely rendered in the sidebar without duplication.

Change-Id: I444754d548ec91d00f2b04e861de8dde8856aa62
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Required work to make all documents sit at the correct levels within
the document tree and any derived content like the table of contents
and the categories in the sidebar.

Change-Id: I4885fbe30864a87c8822ee67482b71fb46a8fbc6
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This patch attempts to standardise the document titles as well as
adding titles to documents that were missing one. The aim is to
remove needless references to "TF-A" or "Trusted Firmware" in the
title of every document and to make sure that the title matches
with the document content.

Change-Id: I9b93ccf43b5d57e8dc793a5311b8ed7c4dd245cc
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This change creates the following directories under docs/
in order to provide a grouping for the content:

- components
- design
- getting_started
- perf
- process

In each of these directories an index.rst file is created
and this serves as an index / landing page for each of the
groups when the pages are compiled. Proper layout of the
top-level table of contents relies on this directory/index
structure.

Without this patch it is possible to build the documents
correctly with Sphinx but the output looks messy because
there is no overall hierarchy.

Change-Id: I3c9f4443ec98571a56a6edf775f2c8d74d7f429f
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>