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

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

Change-Id: I679d1499376a524bef1cfc33df995b0a719b5ac8
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>

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>

Just like has been done in the porting guide a couple of patches
earlier, kill all escaped underscore characters in all documents.

Change-Id: I7fb5b806412849761d9221a6ce3cbd95ec43d611
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Corrects typos in core code, documentation files, drivers, Arm
platforms and services.

None of the corrections affect code; changes are limited to comments
and other documentation.

Change-Id: I5c1027b06ef149864f315ccc0ea473e2a16bfd1d
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>

Update Arm Trusted Firmware references in the upstream documents to
Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A). This is for consistency with and
disambiguation from Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M).

Also update other Arm trademarks, e.g. ARM->Arm, ARMv8->Armv8-A.

Change-Id: I8bb0e18af29c6744eeea2dc6c08f2c10b20ede22
Signed-off-by: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

Due to recent issues in the rendering of the documentation on GitHub and
some long-standing issues like the lack of automatic table of content in
Markdown, the documentation has been converted to reStructuredText.
Basic constructs looks pretty similar to Markdown.

Automatically convert GitHub markdown documentation to reStructuredText
using pandoc.

Change-Id: If20b695acedc6d1b49c8d9fb64efd6b6ba23f4a9
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

Fix link in docs/firmware-update.md and docs/change-log.md:
https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/wiki/ARM-Trusted-Firmware-Image-Terminology



Change-Id: I2d51d373fd0f7da59b548cd6bed52c47772014fd
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

This SMC is as a means for the image loading state machine to go from
COPYING, COPIED or AUTHENTICATED states to RESET state. Previously, this
was only done when the authentication of an image failed or when the
execution of the image finished.

Documentation updated.

Change-Id: Ida6d4c65017f83ae5e27465ec36f54499c6534d9
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Added checks to FWU_SMC_IMAGE_COPY to prevent loading data into a
memory region where another image data is already loaded.

Without this check, if two images are configured to be loaded in
overlapping memory regions, one of them can be loaded and
authenticated and the copy function is still able to load data from
the second image on top of the first one. Since the first image is
still in authenticated state, it can be executed, which could lead to
the execution of unauthenticated arbitrary code of the second image.

Firmware update documentation updated.

Change-Id: Ib6871e569794c8e610a5ea59fe162ff5dcec526c
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

 - Clarify the documentation of the 'FWU_SMC_IMAGE_COPY' SMC in the
   Firmware Update guide. Also extend the list of pre-conditions to
   include the additional input validation implemented by previous
   patches.

 - Improve documentation of bl1_plat_mem_check() in the porting
   guide. It now specifies that the generic FWU code protects
   bl1_plat_mem_check() from integer overflows resulting from
   the addition of the base address and size passed in arguments.

Change-Id: I07b47a3778df7b9c089529b2dd2135707640a91c
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Change-Id: I4fcdb8e813e0392c2cd3d0623698e8319b3b0593

This patch adds design documentation for the Firmware Update (FWU)
feature in `firmware-update.md`. It provides an overview of FWU,
describes the BL1 SMC interface, and includes diagrams showing
an example FWU boot flow and the FWU state machine.

This patch also updates the existing TF documents where needed:

*   `porting-guide.md`
*   `user-guide.md`
*   `firmware-design.md`
*   `rt-svc-writers-guide.md`
*   `trusted_board_boot.md`

Change-Id: Ie6de31544429b18f01327bd763175e218299a4ce
Co-Authored-By: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>