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

Make BL31's ns_entry_info a single-cpu area

ns_entry_info used to be a per-cpu array. This is a waste of space
because it is only accessed by the primary CPU on the cold boot path.
This patch reduc

Make BL31's ns_entry_info a single-cpu area

ns_entry_info used to be a per-cpu array. This is a waste of space
because it is only accessed by the primary CPU on the cold boot path.
This patch reduces ns_entry_info to a single-cpu area.

Change-Id: I647c70c4e76069560f1aaad37a1d5910f56fba4c

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Move RUN_IMAGE constant from bl1.h to bl_common.h

RUN_IMAGE constant is used by all bootloader stages.

Change-Id: I1b4e28d8fcf3ad1363f202c859f5efab0f320efe

rework general purpose registers save and restore

The runtime exception handling assembler code used magic numbers for
saving and restoring the general purpose register context on stack
memory. The

rework general purpose registers save and restore

The runtime exception handling assembler code used magic numbers for
saving and restoring the general purpose register context on stack
memory. The memory is interpreted as a 'gp_regs' structure and the
magic numbers are offsets to members of this structure. This patch
replaces the magic number offsets with constants. It also adds compile
time assertions to prevent an incorrect assembler view of this
structure.

Change-Id: Ibf125bfdd62ba3a33e58c5f1d71f8c229720781c

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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