Build Options ============= The TF-A build system supports the following build options. Unless mentioned otherwise, these options are expected to be specified at the build command line and are not to be modified in any component makefiles. Note that the build system doesn't track dependency for build options. Therefore, if any of the build options are changed from a previous build, a clean build must be performed. .. _build_options_common: Common build options -------------------- - ``AARCH32_INSTRUCTION_SET``: Choose the AArch32 instruction set that the compiler should use. Valid values are T32 and A32. It defaults to T32 due to code having a smaller resulting size. - ``AARCH32_SP`` : Choose the AArch32 Secure Payload component to be built as as the BL32 image when ``ARCH=aarch32``. The value should be the path to the directory containing the SP source, relative to the ``bl32/``; the directory is expected to contain a makefile called ``.mk``. - ``ARCH`` : Choose the target build architecture for TF-A. It can take either ``aarch64`` or ``aarch32`` as values. By default, it is defined to ``aarch64``. - ``ARM_ARCH_MAJOR``: The major version of Arm Architecture to target when compiling TF-A. Its value must be numeric, and defaults to 8 . See also, *Armv8 Architecture Extensions* and *Armv7 Architecture Extensions* in :ref:`Firmware Design`. - ``ARM_ARCH_MINOR``: The minor version of Arm Architecture to target when compiling TF-A. Its value must be a numeric, and defaults to 0. See also, *Armv8 Architecture Extensions* in :ref:`Firmware Design`. - ``BL2``: This is an optional build option which specifies the path to BL2 image for the ``fip`` target. In this case, the BL2 in the TF-A will not be built. - ``BL2U``: This is an optional build option which specifies the path to BL2U image. In this case, the BL2U in TF-A will not be built. - ``BL2_AT_EL3``: This is an optional build option that enables the use of BL2 at EL3 execution level. - ``BL2_IN_XIP_MEM``: In some use-cases BL2 will be stored in eXecute In Place (XIP) memory, like BL1. In these use-cases, it is necessary to initialize the RW sections in RAM, while leaving the RO sections in place. This option enable this use-case. For now, this option is only supported when BL2_AT_EL3 is set to '1'. - ``BL31``: This is an optional build option which specifies the path to BL31 image for the ``fip`` target. In this case, the BL31 in TF-A will not be built. - ``BL31_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the BL31 private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``BL32``: This is an optional build option which specifies the path to BL32 image for the ``fip`` target. In this case, the BL32 in TF-A will not be built. - ``BL32_EXTRA1``: This is an optional build option which specifies the path to Trusted OS Extra1 image for the ``fip`` target. - ``BL32_EXTRA2``: This is an optional build option which specifies the path to Trusted OS Extra2 image for the ``fip`` target. - ``BL32_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the BL32 private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``BL33``: Path to BL33 image in the host file system. This is mandatory for ``fip`` target in case TF-A BL2 is used. - ``BL33_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the BL33 private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``BRANCH_PROTECTION``: Numeric value to enable ARMv8.3 Pointer Authentication and ARMv8.5 Branch Target Identification support for TF-A BL images themselves. If enabled, it is needed to use a compiler that supports the option ``-mbranch-protection``. Selects the branch protection features to use: - 0: Default value turns off all types of branch protection - 1: Enables all types of branch protection features - 2: Return address signing to its standard level - 3: Extend the signing to include leaf functions The table below summarizes ``BRANCH_PROTECTION`` values, GCC compilation options and resulting PAuth/BTI features. +-------+--------------+-------+-----+ | Value | GCC option | PAuth | BTI | +=======+==============+=======+=====+ | 0 | none | N | N | +-------+--------------+-------+-----+ | 1 | standard | Y | Y | +-------+--------------+-------+-----+ | 2 | pac-ret | Y | N | +-------+--------------+-------+-----+ | 3 | pac-ret+leaf | Y | N | +-------+--------------+-------+-----+ This option defaults to 0 and this is an experimental feature. Note that Pointer Authentication is enabled for Non-secure world irrespective of the value of this option if the CPU supports it. - ``BUILD_MESSAGE_TIMESTAMP``: String used to identify the time and date of the compilation of each build. It must be set to a C string (including quotes where applicable). Defaults to a string that contains the time and date of the compilation. - ``BUILD_STRING``: Input string for VERSION_STRING, which allows the TF-A build to be uniquely identified. Defaults to the current git commit id. - ``CFLAGS``: Extra user options appended on the compiler's command line in addition to the options set by the build system. - ``COLD_BOOT_SINGLE_CPU``: This option indicates whether the platform may release several CPUs out of reset. It can take either 0 (several CPUs may be brought up) or 1 (only one CPU will ever be brought up during cold reset). Default is 0. If the platform always brings up a single CPU, there is no need to distinguish between primary and secondary CPUs and the boot path can be optimised. The ``plat_is_my_cpu_primary()`` and ``plat_secondary_cold_boot_setup()`` platform porting interfaces do not need to be implemented in this case. - ``COT``: When Trusted Boot is enabled, selects the desired chain of trust. Defaults to ``tbbr``. - ``CRASH_REPORTING``: A non-zero value enables a console dump of processor register state when an unexpected exception occurs during execution of BL31. This option defaults to the value of ``DEBUG`` - i.e. by default this is only enabled for a debug build of the firmware. - ``CREATE_KEYS``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It tells the certificate generation tool to create new keys in case no valid keys are present or specified. Allowed options are '0' or '1'. Default is '1'. - ``CTX_INCLUDE_AARCH32_REGS`` : Boolean option that, when set to 1, will cause the AArch32 system registers to be included when saving and restoring the CPU context. The option must be set to 0 for AArch64-only platforms (that is on hardware that does not implement AArch32, or at least not at EL1 and higher ELs). Default value is 1. - ``CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS``: Boolean option that, when set to 1, will cause the FP registers to be included when saving and restoring the CPU context. Default is 0. - ``CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS``: Boolean option that, when set to 1, enables Pointer Authentication for Secure world. This will cause the ARMv8.3-PAuth registers to be included when saving and restoring the CPU context as part of world switch. Default value is 0 and this is an experimental feature. Note that Pointer Authentication is enabled for Non-secure world irrespective of the value of this flag if the CPU supports it. - ``DEBUG``: Chooses between a debug and release build. It can take either 0 (release) or 1 (debug) as values. 0 is the default. - ``DISABLE_BIN_GENERATION``: Boolean option to disable the generation of the binary image. If set to 1, then only the ELF image is built. 0 is the default. - ``DYN_DISABLE_AUTH``: Provides the capability to dynamically disable Trusted Board Boot authentication at runtime. This option is meant to be enabled only for development platforms. ``TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT`` flag must be set if this flag has to be enabled. 0 is the default. - ``E``: Boolean option to make warnings into errors. Default is 1. - ``EL3_PAYLOAD_BASE``: This option enables booting an EL3 payload instead of the normal boot flow. It must specify the entry point address of the EL3 payload. Please refer to the "Booting an EL3 payload" section for more details. - ``ENABLE_AMU``: Boolean option to enable Activity Monitor Unit extensions. This is an optional architectural feature available on v8.4 onwards. Some v8.2 implementations also implement an AMU and this option can be used to enable this feature on those systems as well. Default is 0. - ``ENABLE_ASSERTIONS``: This option controls whether or not calls to ``assert()`` are compiled out. For debug builds, this option defaults to 1, and calls to ``assert()`` are left in place. For release builds, this option defaults to 0 and calls to ``assert()`` function are compiled out. This option can be set independently of ``DEBUG``. It can also be used to hide any auxiliary code that is only required for the assertion and does not fit in the assertion itself. - ``ENABLE_BACKTRACE``: This option controls whether to enables backtrace dumps or not. It is supported in both AArch64 and AArch32. However, in AArch32 the format of the frame records are not defined in the AAPCS and they are defined by the implementation. This implementation of backtrace only supports the format used by GCC when T32 interworking is disabled. For this reason enabling this option in AArch32 will force the compiler to only generate A32 code. This option is enabled by default only in AArch64 debug builds, but this behaviour can be overridden in each platform's Makefile or in the build command line. - ``ENABLE_LTO``: Boolean option to enable Link Time Optimization (LTO) support in GCC for TF-A. This option is currently only supported for AArch64. Default is 0. - ``ENABLE_MPAM_FOR_LOWER_ELS``: Boolean option to enable lower ELs to use MPAM feature. MPAM is an optional Armv8.4 extension that enables various memory system components and resources to define partitions; software running at various ELs can assign themselves to desired partition to control their performance aspects. When this option is set to ``1``, EL3 allows lower ELs to access their own MPAM registers without trapping into EL3. This option doesn't make use of partitioning in EL3, however. Platform initialisation code should configure and use partitions in EL3 as required. This option defaults to ``0``. - ``ENABLE_PIE``: Boolean option to enable Position Independent Executable(PIE) support within generic code in TF-A. This option is currently only supported in BL2_AT_EL3, BL31, and BL32 (TSP). Default is 0. - ``ENABLE_PMF``: Boolean option to enable support for optional Performance Measurement Framework(PMF). Default is 0. - ``ENABLE_PSCI_STAT``: Boolean option to enable support for optional PSCI functions ``PSCI_STAT_RESIDENCY`` and ``PSCI_STAT_COUNT``. Default is 0. In the absence of an alternate stat collection backend, ``ENABLE_PMF`` must be enabled. If ``ENABLE_PMF`` is set, the residency statistics are tracked in software. - ``ENABLE_RUNTIME_INSTRUMENTATION``: Boolean option to enable runtime instrumentation which injects timestamp collection points into TF-A to allow runtime performance to be measured. Currently, only PSCI is instrumented. Enabling this option enables the ``ENABLE_PMF`` build option as well. Default is 0. - ``ENABLE_SPE_FOR_LOWER_ELS`` : Boolean option to enable Statistical Profiling extensions. This is an optional architectural feature for AArch64. The default is 1 but is automatically disabled when the target architecture is AArch32. - ``ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS``: Boolean option to enable Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for the Non-secure world only. SVE is an optional architectural feature for AArch64. Note that when SVE is enabled for the Non-secure world, access to SIMD and floating-point functionality from the Secure world is disabled. This is to avoid corruption of the Non-secure world data in the Z-registers which are aliased by the SIMD and FP registers. The build option is not compatible with the ``CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS`` build option, and will raise an assert on platforms where SVE is implemented and ``ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS`` set to 1. The default is 1 but is automatically disabled when the target architecture is AArch32. - ``ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR``: String option to enable the stack protection checks in GCC. Allowed values are "all", "strong", "default" and "none". The default value is set to "none". "strong" is the recommended stack protection level if this feature is desired. "none" disables the stack protection. For all values other than "none", the ``plat_get_stack_protector_canary()`` platform hook needs to be implemented. The value is passed as the last component of the option ``-fstack-protector-$ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR``. - ``ERROR_DEPRECATED``: This option decides whether to treat the usage of deprecated platform APIs, helper functions or drivers within Trusted Firmware as error. It can take the value 1 (flag the use of deprecated APIs as error) or 0. The default is 0. - ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING``: When set to ``1``, enable handling of exceptions targeted at EL3. When set ``0`` (default), no exceptions are expected or handled at EL3, and a panic will result. This is supported only for AArch64 builds. - ``FAULT_INJECTION_SUPPORT``: ARMv8.4 extensions introduced support for fault injection from lower ELs, and this build option enables lower ELs to use Error Records accessed via System Registers to inject faults. This is applicable only to AArch64 builds. This feature is intended for testing purposes only, and is advisable to keep disabled for production images. - ``FIP_NAME``: This is an optional build option which specifies the FIP filename for the ``fip`` target. Default is ``fip.bin``. - ``FWU_FIP_NAME``: This is an optional build option which specifies the FWU FIP filename for the ``fwu_fip`` target. Default is ``fwu_fip.bin``. - ``GENERATE_COT``: Boolean flag used to build and execute the ``cert_create`` tool to create certificates as per the Chain of Trust described in :ref:`Trusted Board Boot`. The build system then calls ``fiptool`` to include the certificates in the FIP and FWU_FIP. Default value is '0'. Specify both ``TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=1`` and ``GENERATE_COT=1`` to include support for the Trusted Board Boot feature in the BL1 and BL2 images, to generate the corresponding certificates, and to include those certificates in the FIP and FWU_FIP. Note that if ``TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=0`` and ``GENERATE_COT=1``, the BL1 and BL2 images will not include support for Trusted Board Boot. The FIP will still include the corresponding certificates. This FIP can be used to verify the Chain of Trust on the host machine through other mechanisms. Note that if ``TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=1`` and ``GENERATE_COT=0``, the BL1 and BL2 images will include support for Trusted Board Boot, but the FIP and FWU_FIP will not include the corresponding certificates, causing a boot failure. - ``GICV2_G0_FOR_EL3``: Unlike GICv3, the GICv2 architecture doesn't have inherent support for specific EL3 type interrupts. Setting this build option to ``1`` assumes GICv2 *Group 0* interrupts are expected to target EL3, both by `platform abstraction layer`__ and `Interrupt Management Framework`__. This allows GICv2 platforms to enable features requiring EL3 interrupt type. This also means that all GICv2 Group 0 interrupts are delivered to EL3, and the Secure Payload interrupts needs to be synchronously handed over to Secure EL1 for handling. The default value of this option is ``0``, which means the Group 0 interrupts are assumed to be handled by Secure EL1. .. __: platform-interrupt-controller-API.rst .. __: interrupt-framework-design.rst - ``HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST``: When set to ``1``, External Aborts and SError Interrupts will be always trapped in EL3 i.e. in BL31 at runtime. When set to ``0`` (default), these exceptions will be trapped in the current exception level (or in EL1 if the current exception level is EL0). - ``HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY``: On most Arm systems to-date, platform-specific software operations are required for CPUs to enter and exit coherency. However, newer systems exist where CPUs' entry to and exit from coherency is managed in hardware. Such systems require software to only initiate these operations, and the rest is managed in hardware, minimizing active software management. In such systems, this boolean option enables TF-A to carry out build and run-time optimizations during boot and power management operations. This option defaults to 0 and if it is enabled, then it implies ``WARMBOOT_ENABLE_DCACHE_EARLY`` is also enabled. If this flag is disabled while the platform which TF-A is compiled for includes cores that manage coherency in hardware, then a compilation error is generated. This is based on the fact that a system cannot have, at the same time, cores that manage coherency in hardware and cores that don't. In other words, a platform cannot have, at the same time, cores that require ``HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY=1`` and cores that require ``HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY=0``. Note that, when ``HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY`` is enabled, version 2 of translation library (xlat tables v2) must be used; version 1 of translation library is not supported. - ``JUNO_AARCH32_EL3_RUNTIME``: This build flag enables you to execute EL3 runtime software in AArch32 mode, which is required to run AArch32 on Juno. By default this flag is set to '0'. Enabling this flag builds BL1 and BL2 in AArch64 and facilitates the loading of ``SP_MIN`` and BL33 as AArch32 executable images. - ``KEY_ALG``: This build flag enables the user to select the algorithm to be used for generating the PKCS keys and subsequent signing of the certificate. It accepts 3 values: ``rsa``, ``rsa_1_5`` and ``ecdsa``. The option ``rsa_1_5`` is the legacy PKCS#1 RSA 1.5 algorithm which is not TBBR compliant and is retained only for compatibility. The default value of this flag is ``rsa`` which is the TBBR compliant PKCS#1 RSA 2.1 scheme. - ``KEY_SIZE``: This build flag enables the user to select the key size for the algorithm specified by ``KEY_ALG``. The valid values for ``KEY_SIZE`` depend on the chosen algorithm and the cryptographic module. +-----------+------------------------------------+ | KEY_ALG | Possible key sizes | +===========+====================================+ | rsa | 1024 , 2048 (default), 3072, 4096* | +-----------+------------------------------------+ | ecdsa | unavailable | +-----------+------------------------------------+ * Only 2048 bits size is available with CryptoCell 712 SBROM release 1. Only 3072 bits size is available with CryptoCell 712 SBROM release 2. - ``HASH_ALG``: This build flag enables the user to select the secure hash algorithm. It accepts 3 values: ``sha256``, ``sha384`` and ``sha512``. The default value of this flag is ``sha256``. - ``LDFLAGS``: Extra user options appended to the linkers' command line in addition to the one set by the build system. - ``LOG_LEVEL``: Chooses the log level, which controls the amount of console log output compiled into the build. This should be one of the following: :: 0 (LOG_LEVEL_NONE) 10 (LOG_LEVEL_ERROR) 20 (LOG_LEVEL_NOTICE) 30 (LOG_LEVEL_WARNING) 40 (LOG_LEVEL_INFO) 50 (LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE) All log output up to and including the selected log level is compiled into the build. The default value is 40 in debug builds and 20 in release builds. - ``MEASURED_BOOT``: Boolean flag to include support for the Measured Boot feature. If this flag is enabled ``TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT`` must be set. This option defaults to 0 and is an experimental feature in the stage of development. - ``NON_TRUSTED_WORLD_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the Non-Trusted World private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``NS_BL2U``: Path to NS_BL2U image in the host file system. This image is optional. It is only needed if the platform makefile specifies that it is required in order to build the ``fwu_fip`` target. - ``NS_TIMER_SWITCH``: Enable save and restore for non-secure timer register contents upon world switch. It can take either 0 (don't save and restore) or 1 (do save and restore). 0 is the default. An SPD may set this to 1 if it wants the timer registers to be saved and restored. - ``OVERRIDE_LIBC``: This option allows platforms to override the default libc for the BL image. It can be either 0 (include) or 1 (remove). The default value is 0. - ``PL011_GENERIC_UART``: Boolean option to indicate the PL011 driver that the underlying hardware is not a full PL011 UART but a minimally compliant generic UART, which is a subset of the PL011. The driver will not access any register that is not part of the SBSA generic UART specification. Default value is 0 (a full PL011 compliant UART is present). - ``PLAT``: Choose a platform to build TF-A for. The chosen platform name must be subdirectory of any depth under ``plat/``, and must contain a platform makefile named ``platform.mk``. For example, to build TF-A for the Arm Juno board, select PLAT=juno. - ``PRELOADED_BL33_BASE``: This option enables booting a preloaded BL33 image instead of the normal boot flow. When defined, it must specify the entry point address for the preloaded BL33 image. This option is incompatible with ``EL3_PAYLOAD_BASE``. If both are defined, ``EL3_PAYLOAD_BASE`` has priority over ``PRELOADED_BL33_BASE``. - ``PROGRAMMABLE_RESET_ADDRESS``: This option indicates whether the reset vector address can be programmed or is fixed on the platform. It can take either 0 (fixed) or 1 (programmable). Default is 0. If the platform has a programmable reset address, it is expected that a CPU will start executing code directly at the right address, both on a cold and warm reset. In this case, there is no need to identify the entrypoint on boot and the boot path can be optimised. The ``plat_get_my_entrypoint()`` platform porting interface does not need to be implemented in this case. - ``PSCI_EXTENDED_STATE_ID``: As per PSCI1.0 Specification, there are 2 formats possible for the PSCI power-state parameter: original and extended State-ID formats. This flag if set to 1, configures the generic PSCI layer to use the extended format. The default value of this flag is 0, which means by default the original power-state format is used by the PSCI implementation. This flag should be specified by the platform makefile and it governs the return value of PSCI_FEATURES API for CPU_SUSPEND smc function id. When this option is enabled on Arm platforms, the option ``ARM_RECOM_STATE_ID_ENC`` needs to be set to 1 as well. - ``RAS_EXTENSION``: When set to ``1``, enable Armv8.2 RAS features. RAS features are an optional extension for pre-Armv8.2 CPUs, but are mandatory for Armv8.2 or later CPUs. When ``RAS_EXTENSION`` is set to ``1``, ``HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST`` must also be set to ``1``. This option is disabled by default. - ``RESET_TO_BL31``: Enable BL31 entrypoint as the CPU reset vector instead of the BL1 entrypoint. It can take the value 0 (CPU reset to BL1 entrypoint) or 1 (CPU reset to BL31 entrypoint). The default value is 0. - ``RESET_TO_SP_MIN``: SP_MIN is the minimal AArch32 Secure Payload provided in TF-A. This flag configures SP_MIN entrypoint as the CPU reset vector instead of the BL1 entrypoint. It can take the value 0 (CPU reset to BL1 entrypoint) or 1 (CPU reset to SP_MIN entrypoint). The default value is 0. - ``ROT_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the ROT private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``SAVE_KEYS``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It tells the certificate generation tool to save the keys used to establish the Chain of Trust. Allowed options are '0' or '1'. Default is '0' (do not save). - ``SCP_BL2``: Path to SCP_BL2 image in the host file system. This image is optional. If a SCP_BL2 image is present then this option must be passed for the ``fip`` target. - ``SCP_BL2_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the SCP_BL2 private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``SCP_BL2U``: Path to SCP_BL2U image in the host file system. This image is optional. It is only needed if the platform makefile specifies that it is required in order to build the ``fwu_fip`` target. - ``SDEI_SUPPORT``: Setting this to ``1`` enables support for Software Delegated Exception Interface to BL31 image. This defaults to ``0``. When set to ``1``, the build option ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING`` must also be set to ``1``. - ``SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA``: Whether code and read-only data should be isolated on separate memory pages. This is a trade-off between security and memory usage. See "Isolating code and read-only data on separate memory pages" section in :ref:`Firmware Design`. This flag is disabled by default and affects all BL images. - ``SEPARATE_NOBITS_REGION``: Setting this option to ``1`` allows the NOBITS sections of BL31 (.bss, stacks, page tables, and coherent memory) to be allocated in RAM discontiguous from the loaded firmware image. When set, the platform is expected to provide definitons for ``BL31_NOBITS_BASE`` and ``BL31_NOBITS_LIMIT``. When the option is ``0`` (the default), NOBITS sections are placed in RAM immediately following the loaded firmware image. - ``SPD``: Choose a Secure Payload Dispatcher component to be built into TF-A. This build option is only valid if ``ARCH=aarch64``. The value should be the path to the directory containing the SPD source, relative to ``services/spd/``; the directory is expected to contain a makefile called ``.mk``. - ``SPIN_ON_BL1_EXIT``: This option introduces an infinite loop in BL1. It can take either 0 (no loop) or 1 (add a loop). 0 is the default. This loop stops execution in BL1 just before handing over to BL31. At this point, all firmware images have been loaded in memory, and the MMU and caches are turned off. Refer to the "Debugging options" section for more details. - ``SPM_MM`` : Boolean option to enable the Management Mode (MM)-based Secure Partition Manager (SPM) implementation. The default value is ``0``. - ``SP_MIN_WITH_SECURE_FIQ``: Boolean flag to indicate the SP_MIN handles secure interrupts (caught through the FIQ line). Platforms can enable this directive if they need to handle such interruption. When enabled, the FIQ are handled in monitor mode and non secure world is not allowed to mask these events. Platforms that enable FIQ handling in SP_MIN shall implement the api ``sp_min_plat_fiq_handler()``. The default value is 0. - ``TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT``: Boolean flag to include support for the Trusted Board Boot feature. When set to '1', BL1 and BL2 images include support to load and verify the certificates and images in a FIP, and BL1 includes support for the Firmware Update. The default value is '0'. Generation and inclusion of certificates in the FIP and FWU_FIP depends upon the value of the ``GENERATE_COT`` option. .. warning:: This option depends on ``CREATE_KEYS`` to be enabled. If the keys already exist in disk, they will be overwritten without further notice. - ``TRUSTED_WORLD_KEY``: This option is used when ``GENERATE_COT=1``. It specifies the file that contains the Trusted World private key in PEM format. If ``SAVE_KEYS=1``, this file name will be used to save the key. - ``TSP_INIT_ASYNC``: Choose BL32 initialization method as asynchronous or synchronous, (see "Initializing a BL32 Image" section in :ref:`Firmware Design`). It can take the value 0 (BL32 is initialized using synchronous method) or 1 (BL32 is initialized using asynchronous method). Default is 0. - ``TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT``: A non zero value enables the interrupt routing model which routes non-secure interrupts asynchronously from TSP to EL3 causing immediate preemption of TSP. The EL3 is responsible for saving and restoring the TSP context in this routing model. The default routing model (when the value is 0) is to route non-secure interrupts to TSP allowing it to save its context and hand over synchronously to EL3 via an SMC. .. note:: When ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING`` is ``1``, ``TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT`` must also be set to ``1``. - ``USE_ARM_LINK``: This flag determines whether to enable support for ARM linker. When the ``LINKER`` build variable points to the armlink linker, this flag is enabled automatically. To enable support for armlink, platforms will have to provide a scatter file for the BL image. Currently, Tegra platforms use the armlink support to compile BL3-1 images. - ``USE_COHERENT_MEM``: This flag determines whether to include the coherent memory region in the BL memory map or not (see "Use of Coherent memory in TF-A" section in :ref:`Firmware Design`). It can take the value 1 (Coherent memory region is included) or 0 (Coherent memory region is excluded). Default is 1. - ``USE_DEBUGFS``: When set to 1 this option activates an EXPERIMENTAL feature exposing a virtual filesystem interface through BL31 as a SiP SMC function. Default is 0. - ``USE_ROMLIB``: This flag determines whether library at ROM will be used. This feature creates a library of functions to be placed in ROM and thus reduces SRAM usage. Refer to :ref:`Library at ROM` for further details. Default is 0. - ``V``: Verbose build. If assigned anything other than 0, the build commands are printed. Default is 0. - ``VERSION_STRING``: String used in the log output for each TF-A image. Defaults to a string formed by concatenating the version number, build type and build string. - ``W``: Warning level. Some compiler warning options of interest have been regrouped and put in the root Makefile. This flag can take the values 0 to 3, each level enabling more warning options. Default is 0. - ``WARMBOOT_ENABLE_DCACHE_EARLY`` : Boolean option to enable D-cache early on the CPU after warm boot. This is applicable for platforms which do not require interconnect programming to enable cache coherency (eg: single cluster platforms). If this option is enabled, then warm boot path enables D-caches immediately after enabling MMU. This option defaults to 0. Debugging options ----------------- To compile a debug version and make the build more verbose use .. code:: shell make PLAT= DEBUG=1 V=1 all AArch64 GCC uses DWARF version 4 debugging symbols by default. Some tools (for example DS-5) might not support this and may need an older version of DWARF symbols to be emitted by GCC. This can be achieved by using the ``-gdwarf-`` flag, with the version being set to 2 or 3. Setting the version to 2 is recommended for DS-5 versions older than 5.16. When debugging logic problems it might also be useful to disable all compiler optimizations by using ``-O0``. .. warning:: Using ``-O0`` could cause output images to be larger and base addresses might need to be recalculated (see the **Memory layout on Arm development platforms** section in the :ref:`Firmware Design`). Extra debug options can be passed to the build system by setting ``CFLAGS`` or ``LDFLAGS``: .. code:: shell CFLAGS='-O0 -gdwarf-2' \ make PLAT= DEBUG=1 V=1 all Note that using ``-Wl,`` style compilation driver options in ``CFLAGS`` will be ignored as the linker is called directly. It is also possible to introduce an infinite loop to help in debugging the post-BL2 phase of TF-A. This can be done by rebuilding BL1 with the ``SPIN_ON_BL1_EXIT=1`` build flag. Refer to the :ref:`build_options_common` section. In this case, the developer may take control of the target using a debugger when indicated by the console output. When using DS-5, the following commands can be used: :: # Stop target execution interrupt # # Prepare your debugging environment, e.g. set breakpoints # # Jump over the debug loop set var $AARCH64::$Core::$PC = $AARCH64::$Core::$PC + 4 # Resume execution continue -------------- *Copyright (c) 2019-2020, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.*