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ARM Trusted Firmware
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====================
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Detailed changes since last release
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* Support for Foundation FVP Version 2.0 added.
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The documented UEFI configuration disables some devices that are unavailable
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in the Foundation FVP, including MMC and CLCD. The resultant UEFI binary can
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be used on the AEMv8 and Cortex-A57-A53 FVPs, as well as the Foundation FVP.
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NOTE: The software will not work on Version 1.0 of the Foundation FVP.
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* Regression-checked against latest Base FVPs (Version 5.2).
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* The supplied FDTs expose the Interrupt Translation Service (ITS) available
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in GICv3.
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* Fixed various GCC compiler warnings.
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* Unmask SError and Debug exceptions in the trusted firmware.
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Also route external abort and SError interrupts to EL3.
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* The amount of physical RAM available to Linux as specified in the FDTs for
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Base FVPs have been increased from 2GB to 4GB. This resolves the issue of
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failing to start user-space when using a RAM-disk file-system.
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* Build products are now created in a separate build directory tree.
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* Analyze at link-time whether bootloader images will fit in memory and won't
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overlap each other at run time. If it is not the case then image linking
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will now fail.
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* Reduce the size of the bootloader images by cutting some sections out of
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their disk images and allocating them at load time, whenever possible.
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* Properly initialise the C runtime environment. C code can now safely assume
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that global variables are initialised to 0 and that initialised data holds
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the correct value.
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* General changes on the memory layout: some sections have been moved, some of
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them have been merged together, and some alignment constraints on sections
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have changed.
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* Enable third party contributions. Add a new contributing.md containing
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instructions for how to contribute and update copyright text in all files to
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acknowledge contributors.
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* The wake up enable bit in the FVP power controller is cleared when a cpu is
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physically powered up to prevent a spurious wake up from a subsequent cpu
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off state.
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* Definitions of some constants related to the PSCI api calls AFFINITY_INFO
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and CPU_SUSPEND have been corrected.
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* A bug which triggered an error condition in the code executed after a cpu
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is powered on, if a non zero context id parameter was passed in the PSCI
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CPU_ON and CPU_SUSPEND api calls has been corrected.
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* A restriction in the FVP code which did not allow the non-secure entrypoint
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to lie outside the DRAM has been removed.
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* The PSCI CPU_SUSPEND api has been stabilised to an extent where it can be
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used for entry into power down states with the following restrictions:
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- Entry into standby states is not supported.
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- The api is only supported on the AEMv8 Base FVP.
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* The PSCI AFFINITY_INFO api has undergone limited testing on the AEMv8 Base
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FVP to allow experimental use.
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* Locks corresponding to each affinity level are acquired and released in
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the correct sequence in the PSCI implementation. Invocation of the PSCI
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CPU_SUSPEND and CPU_OFF apis simultaneously across cpus & clusters should
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not result in unexpected behaviour.
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* The API to return the memory layout structures for each bootloader stage has
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undergone change. A pointer to these structures is returned instead of their
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copy.
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* Required C library and runtime header files are now included locally in ARM
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Trusted Firmware instead of depending on the toolchain standard include
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paths. The local implementation has been cleaned up and reduced in scope.
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Implementations for `putchar()` and `strchr()` were added to the local C
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library.
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* GCC compiler built-in function support has been disabled in order to improve
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compiler independence.
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* The references to GitHub issues in the documentation now to point to a
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separate issue tracking repository
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https://github.com/ARM-software/tf-issues.
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ARM Trusted Firmware - version 0.2
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==================================
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New features
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* First source release.
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* Code for the PSCI suspend feature is supplied, although this is not enabled
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by default since there are known issues (see below).
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Issues resolved since last release
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----------------------------------
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* The "psci" nodes in the FDTs provided in this release now fully comply
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with the recommendations made in the PSCI specification.
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Known issues
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The following is a list of issues which are expected to be fixed in the future
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releases of the ARM Trusted Firmware.
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* The TrustZone Address Space Controller (TZC-400) is not being programmed
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yet. Use of model parameter `-C bp.secure_memory=1` is not supported.
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* No support yet for secure world interrupt handling or for switching context
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between secure and normal worlds in EL3.
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* GICv3 support is experimental. The Linux kernel patches to support this are
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not widely available. There are known issues with GICv3 initialization in
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the ARM Trusted Firmware.
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* Dynamic image loading is not available yet. The current image loader
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implementation (used to load BL2 and all subsequent images) has some
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limitations. Changing BL2 or BL3-1 load addresses in certain ways can lead
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to loading errors, even if the images should theoretically fit in memory.
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* Although support for PSCI `CPU_SUSPEND` is present, it is not yet stable
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and ready for use.
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* PSCI API calls `AFFINITY_INFO` & `PSCI_VERSION` are implemented but have not
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been tested.
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* The ARM Trusted Firmware make files result in all build artifacts being
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placed in the root of the project. These should be placed in appropriate
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sub-directories.
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* The compilation of ARM Trusted Firmware is not free from compilation
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warnings. Some of these warnings have not been investigated yet so they
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could mask real bugs.
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* The ARM Trusted Firmware currently uses toolchain/system include files like
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stdio.h. It should provide versions of these within the project to maintain
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compatibility between toolchains/systems.
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* The PSCI code takes some locks in an incorrect sequence. This may cause
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problems with suspend and hotplug in certain conditions.
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* The Linux kernel used in this release is based on version 3.12-rc4. Using
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this kernel with the ARM Trusted Firmware fails to start the file-system as
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a RAM-disk. It fails to execute user-space `init` from the RAM-disk. As an
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alternative, the VirtioBlock mechanism can be used to provide a file-system
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to the kernel.
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Detailed changes since last release
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-----------------------------------
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First source release - not applicable.
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_Copyright (c) 2013, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved._
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