Move to the new ARM SCP Messaging Interfaces
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The communication protocol used between the AP cores and the SCP
in CSS-based platforms like Juno has undergone a number of changes.
This patch makes the required modifications to the SCP Boot Protocol,
SCPI Protocol and MHU driver code in shared CSS platform code so that
the AP cores are still able to communicate with the SCP.
This patch focuses on the mandatory changes to make it work. The
design of this code needs to be improved but this will come in
a subsequent patch.
The main changes are:
- MHU communication protocol
- The command ID and payload size are no longer written into the
MHU registers directly. Instead, they are stored in the payload
area. The MHU registers are now used only as a doorbell to kick
off messages. Same goes for any command result, the AP has to
pick it up from the payload area.
- SCP Boot Protocol
- The BL3-0 image is now expected to embed a checksum. This
checksum must be passed to the SCP, which uses it to check the
integrity of the image it received.
- The BL3-0 image used to be transferred a block (4KB)
at a time. The SCP now supports receiving up to 128KB at a
time, which is more than the size of the BL3-0 image.
Therefore, the image is now sent in one go.
- The command IDs have changed.
- SCPI Protocol
- The size of the SCPI payload has been reduced down from 512
bytes to 256 bytes. This changes the base address of the
AP-to-SCP payload area.
- For commands that have a response, the response is the same SCPI
header that was sent, except for the size and the status, which
both must be updated appropriately. Success/Failure of a command
is determined by looking at the updated status code.
- Some command IDs have changed.
NOTE: THIS PATCH BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH FORMER VERSIONS OF THE SCP
FIRMWARE AND THUS REQUIRES AN UPDATE OF THIS BINARY. THE LATEST SCP
BINARY CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE ARM CONNECTED COMMUNITY WEBSITE.
Change-Id: Ia5f6b95fe32401ee04a3805035748e8ef6718da7
Sandrine Bailleux
authored
on 18 Mar 2015
Dan Handley
committed
on 28 Apr 2015
