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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>

Signed-off-by: Peng Donglin <dolinux.peng@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I459e7d056735222f6f34e275dbdaf9a389d193fc

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>

Change-Id: I679d1499376a524bef1cfc33df995b0a719b5ac8
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>

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>

Some of the sections numbers have been incorrect since the document
structure has changed. Using references to sections rather than
hard-coded section numbers fixes the issue while making it more
future-proof to updates.

Change-Id: I80f5ab6a55a0073b1562a02ce2c9ec7d67cddfff
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

While converting the interrupt framework design document from Markdown
to reStructuredText format, see commit 6f625747

 ("Convert
documentation to reStructuredText"), the structure of the document was
changed and one of the titles got lost. Fix that.

Change-Id: Ib3e6c1f9f01f16108fde3b89ceb624bd54049d2f
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@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>

Change-Id: I77d38758d18ba6dda1652b1b1e644fbfb14386cc
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@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>

Change-Id: Id2e2800af59ca35fc0c4cfdddd9f5c5afd56a4db
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

At present, the build option TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT controls how
Non-secure interrupt affects TSPs execution. When TSP is executing:

  1. When TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT=0, Non-secure interrupts are received
     at the TSP's exception vector, and TSP voluntarily preempts itself.

  2. When TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT=1, Non-secure interrupts causes a
     trap to EL3, which preempts TSP execution.

When EL3 exception handling is in place (i.e.,
EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1), FIQs are always trapped to EL3. On a system
with GICv3, pending NS interrupts while TSP is executing will be
signalled as FIQ (which traps to EL3). This situation necessitates the
same treatment applied to case (2) above.

Therefore, when EL3 exception handling is in place, additionally
require that TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT is set to one 1.

Strictly speaking, this is not required on a system with GICv2, but the
same model is uniformly followed regardless, for simplicity.

Relevant documentation updated.

Change-Id: I928a8ed081fb0ac96e8b1dfe9375c98384da1ccd
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

When ARM Trusted Firmware is built with EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1,
EL3 interrupts (INTR_TYPE_EL3) will always preempt both Non-secure and
secure execution.

The interrupt management framework currently treats EL3 interrupt
routing as valid. For the above reason, this patch makes them invalid
when EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING is in effect.

Change-Id: I95bca8f5dc8df8eb0ff6f305cfba098611522a39
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@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>