Separate out BL2, BL3-1 and BL3-2 early exception vectors from BL1

bl1/aarch64/early_exceptions.S used to be re-used by BL2, BL3-1 and
BL3-2. There was some early SMC handling code in there that wa

Separate out BL2, BL3-1 and BL3-2 early exception vectors from BL1

bl1/aarch64/early_exceptions.S used to be re-used by BL2, BL3-1 and
BL3-2. There was some early SMC handling code in there that was not
required by the other bootloader stages. Therefore this patch
introduces an even simpler exception vector source file for BL2,
BL3-1 and BL3-2.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#38

Change-Id: I0244b80e9930b0f8035156a0bf91cc3e9a8f995d

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Remove partially qualified asm helper functions

Each ARM Trusted Firmware image should know in which EL it is running
and it should use the corresponding register directly instead of reading
current

Remove partially qualified asm helper functions

Each ARM Trusted Firmware image should know in which EL it is running
and it should use the corresponding register directly instead of reading
currentEL and knowing which asm register to read/write

Change-Id: Ief35630190b6f07c8fbb7ba6cb20db308f002945

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Specify image entry in linker script

At present, the entry point for each BL image is specified via the
Makefiles and provided on the command line to the linker. When using a
link script the entry p

Specify image entry in linker script

At present, the entry point for each BL image is specified via the
Makefiles and provided on the command line to the linker. When using a
link script the entry point should rather be specified via the ENTRY()
directive in the link script.

This patch updates linker scripts of all BL images to specify the entry
point using the ENTRY() directive. It also removes the --entry flag
passed to the linker through Makefile.

Fixes issue ARM-software/tf-issues#66

Change-Id: I1369493ebbacea31885b51185441f6b628cf8da0

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Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code

At present, bl1_arch_setup() and bl31_arch_setup() program the counter
frequency using a value from the memory mapped generic timer. The
gener

Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code

At present, bl1_arch_setup() and bl31_arch_setup() program the counter
frequency using a value from the memory mapped generic timer. The
generic timer however is not necessarily present on all ARM systems
(although it is architected to be present on all server systems).

This patch moves the timer setup to platform-specific code and updates
the relevant documentation. Also, CNTR.FCREQ is set as the specification
requires the bit corresponding to the counter's frequency to be set when
enabling. Since we intend to use the base frequency, set bit 8.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#24

Change-Id: I32c52cf882253e01f49056f47c58c23e6f422652

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Add exception vector guards

This patch adds guards so that an exception vector exceeding 32
instructions will generate a compile-time error. This keeps the
exception handlers in check from spilling

Add exception vector guards

This patch adds guards so that an exception vector exceeding 32
instructions will generate a compile-time error. This keeps the
exception handlers in check from spilling over.

Change-Id: I7aa56dd0071a333664e2814c656d3896032046fe

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Setup VBAR_EL3 incrementally

This patch ensures that VBAR_EL3 points to the simple stack-less
'early_exceptions' when the C runtime stack is not correctly setup to
use the more complex 'runtime_exce

Setup VBAR_EL3 incrementally

This patch ensures that VBAR_EL3 points to the simple stack-less
'early_exceptions' when the C runtime stack is not correctly setup to
use the more complex 'runtime_exceptions'. It is initialised to
'runtime_exceptions' once this is done.

This patch also moves all exception vectors into a '.vectors' section
and modifies linker scripts to place all such sections together. This
will minimize space wastage from alignment restrictions.

Change-Id: I8c3e596ea3412c8bd582af9e8d622bb1cb2e049d

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Fix spilled-over BL1 exception vector

The SynchronousExceptionA64 vector has gone beyond the 32-instruction
limit for individual exception vector. This patch splits and relocates
the exception handl

Fix spilled-over BL1 exception vector

The SynchronousExceptionA64 vector has gone beyond the 32-instruction
limit for individual exception vector. This patch splits and relocates
the exception handler so that it fits into the 32-instruction window.

Change-Id: Ic60c4fc3f09a1cb071d63ff0e58353ecaecbb62f

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remove empty definition of display_boot_progress()

This patch replaces the empty definition of display_boot_progress() in
bl2_main.c with a weak definition. The former allowed bl2 to use the
early_e

remove empty definition of display_boot_progress()

This patch replaces the empty definition of display_boot_progress() in
bl2_main.c with a weak definition. The former allowed bl2 to use the
early_exceptions(). It is possible to do that with a simple weak
definition as well.

Change-Id: Idb3f425a5e265f3579b638e3d26bd8c9bb78f80d

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Change comments in assembler files to help ctags

Ctags seem to have a problem with generating tags for assembler symbols
when a comment immediately follows an assembly label.

This patch inserts a s

Change comments in assembler files to help ctags

Ctags seem to have a problem with generating tags for assembler symbols
when a comment immediately follows an assembly label.

This patch inserts a single space character between the label
definition and the following comments to help ctags.

The patch is generated by the command:

git ls-files -- \*.S | xargs sed -i 's/^\([^:]\+\):;/\1: ;/1'

Change-Id: If7a3c9d0f51207ea033cc8b8e1b34acaa0926475

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Do not trap access to floating point registers

Traps when accessing architectural features are disabled by clearing bits
in CPTR_EL3 during early boot, including accesses to floating point
registers

Do not trap access to floating point registers

Traps when accessing architectural features are disabled by clearing bits
in CPTR_EL3 during early boot, including accesses to floating point
registers. The value of this register was previously undetermined, causing
unwanted traps to EL3. Future EL3 code (for example, context save/restore
code) may use floating point registers, although they are not used by current
code.

Also, the '-mgeneral-regs-only' flag is enabled in the GCC settings to
prevent generation of code that uses floating point registers.

Change-Id: I9a03675f6387bbbee81a6f2c9ccf81150db03747

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Update year in copyright text to 2014

Change-Id: Ic7fb61aabae1d515b9e6baf3dd003807ff42da60

Enable third party contributions

- Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.

- Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.

Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c8

Enable third party contributions

- Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.

- Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.

Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5

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Properly initialise the C runtime environment

This patch makes sure the C runtime environment is properly
initialised before executing any C code.

- Zero-initialise NOBITS sections (e.g. the bss

Properly initialise the C runtime environment

This patch makes sure the C runtime environment is properly
initialised before executing any C code.

- Zero-initialise NOBITS sections (e.g. the bss section).
- Relocate BL1 data from ROM to RAM.

Change-Id: I0da81b417b2f0d1f7ef667cc5131b1e47e22571f

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Various improvements/cleanups on the linker scripts

- Check at link-time that bootloader images will fit in memory
at run time and that they won't overlap each other.
- Remove text and rodat

Various improvements/cleanups on the linker scripts

- Check at link-time that bootloader images will fit in memory
at run time and that they won't overlap each other.
- Remove text and rodata orphan sections.
- Define new linker symbols to remove the need for platform setup
code to know the order of sections.
- Reduce the size of the raw binary images by cutting some sections
out of the disk image and allocating them at load time, whenever
possible.
- Rework alignment constraints on sections.
- Remove unused linker symbols.
- Homogenize linker symbols names across all BLs.
- Add some comments in the linker scripts.

Change-Id: I47a328af0ccc7c8ab47fcc0dc6e7dd26160610b9

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Unmask SError and Debug exceptions.

Any asynchronous exception caused by the firmware should be handled
in the firmware itself. For this reason, unmask SError exceptions
(and Debug ones as well) on

Unmask SError and Debug exceptions.

Any asynchronous exception caused by the firmware should be handled
in the firmware itself. For this reason, unmask SError exceptions
(and Debug ones as well) on all boot paths. Also route external
abort and SError interrupts to EL3, otherwise they will target EL1.

Change-Id: I9c191d2d0dcfef85f265641c8460dfbb4d112092

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Move generic architectural setup out of blx_plat_arch_setup().

blx_plat_arch_setup() should only perform platform-specific
architectural setup, e.g. enabling the MMU. This patch moves
generic archi

Move generic architectural setup out of blx_plat_arch_setup().

blx_plat_arch_setup() should only perform platform-specific
architectural setup, e.g. enabling the MMU. This patch moves
generic architectural setup code out of blx_plat_arch_setup().

Change-Id: I4ccf56b8c4a2fa84909817779a2d97a14aaafab6

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ARMv8 Trusted Firmware release v0.2