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Some cores support only AArch64 mode. In those cores, only a limited
subset of the AArch32 system registers are implemented. Hence, if TF-A
is supposed to run on AArch64-only cores, it must be compiled with
CTX_INCLUDE_AARCH32_REGS=0.

Currently, the default settings for compiling TF-A are with the AArch32
system registers included. So, if we compile TF-A the default way and
attempt to run it on an AArch64-only core, we only get a runtime panic.

Now a compile-time check has been added to ensure that this flag has the
appropriate value when AArch64-only cores are included in the build.

Change-Id: I298ec550037fafc9347baafb056926d149197d4c
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

This patch fixes this issue:
https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues/issues/660



The introduced changes are the following:

1) Some cores implement cache coherency maintenance operation on the
hardware level. For those cores, such as - but not only - the DynamIQ
cores, it is mandatory that TF-A is compiled with the
HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY flag. If not, the core behaviour at runtime is
unpredictable. To prevent this, compile time checks have been added and
compilation errors are generated, if needed.

2) To enable this change for FVP, a logical separation has been done for
the core libraries. A system cannot contain cores of both groups, i.e.
cores that manage coherency on hardware and cores that don't do it. As
such, depending on the HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY flag, FVP includes the
libraries only of the relevant cores.

3) The neoverse_e1.S file has been added to the FVP sources.

Change-Id: I787d15819b2add4ec0d238249e04bf0497dc12f3
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Change-Id: I1adcf195c0ba739002f3a59e805c782dd292ccba
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Change-Id: I33bdb9df0462b056adbd00922b2e73eb720560b3
Signed-off-by: John Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>

Enforce full include path for includes. Deprecate old paths.

The following folders inside include/lib have been left unchanged:

- include/lib/cpus/${ARCH}
- include/lib/el3_runtime/${ARCH}

The reason for this change is that having a global namespace for
includes isn't a good idea. It defeats one of the advantages of having
folders and it introduces problems that are sometimes subtle (because
you may not know the header you are actually including if there are two
of them).

For example, this patch had to be created because two headers were
called the same way: e0ea0928 ("Fix gpio includes of mt8173 platform
to avoid collision."). More recently, this patch has had similar
problems: 46f9b2c3 ("drivers: add tzc380 support").

This problem was introduced in commit 4ecca339

 ("Move include and
source files to logical locations"). At that time, there weren't too
many headers so it wasn't a real issue. However, time has shown that
this creates problems.

Platforms that want to preserve the way they include headers may add the
removed paths to PLAT_INCLUDES, but this is discouraged.

Change-Id: I39dc53ed98f9e297a5966e723d1936d6ccf2fc8f
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Previously the errata reporting was optional for CPU operation
files and this was achieved by making use of weak reference to
resolve to 0 if the symbol is not defined. This is error prone
when adding new CPU operation files and weak references are
problematic when fixing up dynamic relocations. Hence this patch
removes the weak reference and makes it mandatory for the CPU
operation files to define the errata reporting function.

Change-Id: I8af192e19b85b7cd8c7579e52f8f05a4294e5396
Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ic0486131c493632eadf329f80b0b5904aed5e4ef
Signed-off-by: Joel Hutton <joel.hutton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>