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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>

A small set of misc changes to ensure correctness before the v2.2
release tagging.

Change-Id: I888840b9483ea1a1633d204fbbc0f9594072101e
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

The list of upstream platforms on the index page is growing
quite long, especially with all the FVP variants being listed
individually.

This patch leverages the "Platform Ports" chapter in the docs
table of contents to condense this information. Almost all
platform ports now have documentation, so the table of
contents serves as the list of upstream platforms by itself.

For those upstream platforms that do not have corresponding
documentation, the top-level "Platform Ports" page mentions
them individually. It also mentions each Arm FVP, just as
the index page did before.

Note that there is an in-progress patch that creates new
platform port documentation for the Arm Juno and Arm FVP
platforms, so this list of "other platforms" will soon be
reduced further as those platforms become part of the
table of contents as well.

Change-Id: I6b1eab8cba71a599d85a6e22553a34b07f213268
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>

Add meson-g12a, qemu-sbsa and rpi4 to the documentation index so
that they will have their docs rendered and integrated into the
table of contents.

Change-Id: Id972bf2fee67312dd7bff29f92bea67842e62431
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This patch introduces Qemu SBSA platform.
Both platform specific files where copied from qemu/qemu with changes for
DRAM base above 32bit and removal of ARMv7 conditional defines/code.
Documentation is aligned to rest of SBSA patches along the series and
planed changes in edk2-platform repo.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#602
Signed-off-by: Radoslaw Biernacki <radoslaw.biernacki@linaro.org>
Change-Id: I8ebc34eedb2268365e479ef05654b2df1b99128c

Introduce the preliminary support for the Amlogic S905X2 (G12A) SoC.

This port is a minimal implementation of BL31 capable of booting
mainline U-Boot and Linux. Tested on a SEI510 board.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
Change-Id: Ife958f10e815a4530292c45446adb71239f3367f

This patch:

- Adds any leftover platform ports that were not having their
  documentation built (not in the index.rst table of contents)
- Corrects a handful of RST formatting errors that cause poor
  rendering
- Reorders the list of platforms so that they are displayed
  in alphabetical order

Change-Id: If8c135a822d581c3c5c4fca2936d501ccfd2e94c
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

As the Raspberry Pi4 port is now in a usable state, add the build
instructions together with some background information to the
documentation directory.
The port differs quite a bit from the Raspberry Pi 3, so we use a
separate file for that.

Change-Id: I7d9f5967fdf3ec3bfe97d78141f59cbcf03388d4
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

The documentation for Marvell platforms was not included in the
rendered document output until now because, while it was mostly
valid RST format, the files were saved with a .txt extension.

This patch corrects some RST formatting errors, creates a document
tree (index page) for the Marvell documents, and adds the Marvell
subtree to the main index.

Change-Id: Id7d4ac37eded636f8f62322a153e1e5f652ff51a
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Signed-off-by: Hadi Asyrafi <muhammad.hadi.asyrafi.abdul.halim@intel.com>
Change-Id: Ib2ad2068abdf0b204c5cb021ea919581adaca4ef

px30 is a Quad-core soc and Cortex-a53 inside.
This patch supports the following functions:
1. basic platform setup
2. power up/off cpus
3. suspend/resume cpus
4. suspend/resume system
5. reset system
6. power off system

Change-Id: I73d55aa978096c078242be921abe0ddca9e8f67e
Signed-off-by: XiaoDong Huang <derrick.huang@rock-chips.com>

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

U-Boot should be compiled with stm32mp15_trusted_defconfig which is
supported since tag v2019.07-rc1 with commit [1].

The creation of the U-Boot binary with stm32 header is done at U-Boot
compilation step, it is no more required to call the extra command.

[1] https://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=015289580f81



Change-Id: Ia875c22184785fc2e02ad07993a649069cd5ce34
Signed-off-by: Yann Gautier <yann.gautier@st.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>

The platform port documents are not very standardised right now and
they don't integrate properly into the document tree so:

1) Make sure each port has a proper name and title (incl. owner)
2) Correct use of headings, subheadings, etc in each port
3) Resolve any naming conflicts between documents

Change-Id: I4c2da6f57172b7f2af3512e766ae9ce3b840b50f
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>

- Add basic platform setup
- Add generic CPU helper functions
- Add delay timer platform implementation
- Use TI 16550 uart driver

Change-Id: I1c29569c68fe9fca5e10e88a22a29690bab7141f
Signed-off-by: kenny liang <kenny.liang@mediatek.com>

Since STM32MP1 platform supports different boards, it is necessary
to build for a particular board. With the current instructions, the
user has to modify the DTB_FILE_NAME variable in platform.mk for
building for a particular board, but this can be avoided by passing
the appropriate board DTB name via DTB_FILE_NAME make variable.
Hence document the same in platform doc.
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Change-Id: I16797e7256c7eb699a7b8846356fe430d0fe0aa1

This adds a rockchip.rst to docs/plat documenting the general
approach to using the Rockchip ATF platforms together with the
supported bootloaders and also adds myself as maintainer after
making sure Tony Xie is ok with that.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Change-Id: Idce53d15eff4ac6de05bbb35d86e57ed50d0cbb9

Support booting OP-TEE as BL32 boot stage and secure runtime
service.

OP-TEE executes in internal RAM and uses a secure DDR area to store
the pager pagestore. Memory mapping and TZC are configured accordingly
prior OP-TEE boot. OP-TEE image is expected in OP-TEE v2 format where
a header file describes the effective boot images. This change
post processes header file content to get OP-TEE load addresses
and set OP-TEE boot arguments.

Change-Id: I02ef8b915e4be3e95b27029357d799d70e01cd44
Signed-off-by: Yann Gautier <yann.gautier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@st.com>

Also adds a maintainer for GXL.
Signed-off-by: Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>

The i.MX8M Mini is new SOC of the i.MX8M family. it is
focused on delivering the latest and greatest video and
audio experience combining state-of-the-art media-specific
features with high-performance processing while optimized
for lowest power consumption. The i.MX 8M Mini Media Applications
Processor is  14nm FinFET product of the growing i.MX8M family
targeting the consumer & industrial market. It is built in 14LPP
to achieve both high performance and low power consumption
and relies on a powerful fully coherent core complex based on
a quad Cortex-A53 cluster with video and graphics accelerators

this patch add the basic support for i.MX8MM.
Signed-off-by: Jacky Bai <ping.bai@nxp.com>

This patch provides support for using the scatterfile format as
the linker script with the 'armlink' linker for Tegra platforms.

In order to enable the scatterfile usage the following changes
have been made:

* provide mapping for ld.S symbols in bl_common.h
* include bl_common.h from all the affected files
* update the makefile rules to use the scatterfile and armlink
  to compile BL31
* update pubsub.h to add sections to the scatterfile

NOTE: THIS CHANGE HAS BEEN VERIFIED WITH TEGRA PLATFORMS ONLY.

Change-Id: I7bb78b991c97d74a842e5635c74cb0b18e0fce67
Signed-off-by: Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>

This adds BL31 support to Intel Stratix10 SoCFPGA platform. BL31 in TF-A
supports:
- PSCI calls to enable 4 CPU cores
- PSCI mailbox calls for FPGA reconfiguration
Signed-off-by: Loh Tien Hock <tien.hock.loh@intel.com>

A link to st.com page describing STM32MP1 is added.
Add the information about Cortex-M4 embedded in STM32MP1.
Correct typo for u-boot command.

Change-Id: Ie900f6ee59461c5e7ad8a8b06854abaf41fca3ce
Signed-off-by: Yann Gautier <yann.gautier@st.com>

This documentation contains information about the boot sequence,
code location and build procedure for fvp_ve platform.

Change-Id: I339903f663cc625cfabc75ed8e4accb8b2c3917c
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@arm.com>

Using Sphinx linkcheck on the TF-A docs revealed some broken
or permanently-redirected links. These have been updated where
possible.

Change-Id: Ie1fead47972ede3331973759b50ee466264bd2ee
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

This patch adds information about the Tegra186 platforms to the
docs.

Change-Id: I69525c60a0126030dc15505ec7f02ccf8250be6f
Signed-off-by: Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>

The non secure world would like to profile the boot path for
the EL3 and S-EL1 firmwares. To allow it to do that, a non-secure
DRAM region (4K) is allocated and the base address is passed to
the EL3 firmware.

This patch adds a library to allow the platform code to store the
tag:timestamp pair to the shared memory. The tegra platform code
then uses the `record` method to add timestamps.

Original change by Akshay Sharan <asharan@nvidia.com>

Change-Id: Idbbef9c83ed84a508b04d85a6637775960dc94ba
Signed-off-by: Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>

This patch updates the WaRP7 build descriptions for booting WaRP7 in
Trusted Board Boot mode. TBB is the only mode we really intend to support
for this board so rather than maintain documentation for the old way of
doing it, this patch updates the description for TBB mode only.
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>

This patch adds capability to read the boot flag to enable L2 ECC
and Parity Protection bit for the Cortex-A57 CPUs. The previous
bootloader sets this flag value for the platform.

* with some coverity fix:
MISRA C-2012 Directive 4.6
MISRA C-2012 Rule 2.5
MISRA C-2012 Rule 10.3
MISRA C-2012 Rule 10.4

Change-Id: Id7303bbbdc290b52919356c31625847b8904b073
Signed-off-by: Harvey Hsieh <hhsieh@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>

i.MX8MQ is new SOC of NXP's i.MX8M family based on
A53. It can provide industry-leading audio, voice
and video processing for applications that scale
from consumer home audio to industrial building
automation and mobile computers

this patchset add the basic supoort to boot up
the 4 X A53. more feature will be added later.
Signed-off-by: Bai Ping <ping.bai@nxp.com>

d4fd0219 (pull request #1685) introduced unwanted formatting
such as bold/italic in the description for RPI3_USE_UEFI_MAP.

The default Raspberry Pi 3 memory mapping for ATF is geared towards
the use of uboot + Linux. This creates issues when trying to use
ATF with an UEFI payload and Windows on ARM64.

We therefore introduce new build option RPI3_USE_UEFI_MAP, that
enables the build process to use an alternate memory mapping that
is compatible with UEFI + Windows (as well as UEFI + Linux).

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#649
Signed-off-by: Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>

Some OSes (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on Raspberry Pi 3) may disable the
runtime UART in a manner that prevents the system from rebooting if
ATF tries to send runtime messages there.

Also, we don't want the firmware to share the UART with normal
world, as this can be a DoS attack vector into the secure world.

This patch fixes these 2 issues by introducing new build option
RPI3_RUNTIME_UART, that disables the runtime UART by default.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#647
Signed-off-by: Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>

Xilinx is introducing Versal, an adaptive compute acceleration platform
(ACAP), built on 7nm FinFET process technology. Versal ACAPs combine Scalar
Processing Engines, Adaptable Hardware Engines, and Intelligent Engines with
leading-edge memory and interfacing technologies to deliver powerful
heterogeneous acceleration for any application. The Versal AI Core series has
five devices, offering 128 to 400 AI Engines. The series includes dual-core Arm
Cortex-A72 application processors, dual-core Arm Cortex-R5 real-time
processors, 256KB of on-chip memory with ECC, more than 1,900 DSP engines
optimized for high-precision floating point with low latency.

This patch adds Virtual QEMU platform support for
this SoC "versal_virt".
Signed-off-by: Siva Durga Prasad Paladugu <siva.durga.paladugu@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>