Do not route external abort and SError interrupts to EL3 ...

The software running at a given exception level should handle
external aborts and SError interrupts itself.

Change-Id: Ic249fdf8472e0c64306ce3913562a2ac89c78627

Merge pull request #62 from athoelke/set-little-endian-v2 ...

Set processor endianness immediately after RESET v2

Correct usage of data and instruction barriers ...

The current code does not always use data and instruction
barriers as required by the architecture and frequently uses
barriers excessively due to their inclusion in all of the
write_*() helper functions.

Barriers should be used explicitly in assembler or C code
when modifying processor state that requires the barriers in
order to enable review of correctness of the code.

This patch removes the barriers from the helper functions and
introduces them as necessary elsewhere in the code.

PORTING NOTE: check any port of Trusted Firmware for use of
system register helper functions for reliance on the previous
barrier behaviour and add explicit barriers as necessary.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#92

Change-Id: Ie63e187404ff10e0bdcb39292dd9066cb84c53bf

Set processor endianness immediately after RESET ...

SCTLR_EL3.EE is being configured too late in bl1_arch_setup() and
bl31_arch_setup() after data accesses have already occured on
the cold and warm boot paths.

This control bit must be configured immediately on CPU reset to
match the endian state of the firmware (little endian).

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#145

Change-Id: Ie12e46fbbed6baf024c30beb50751591bb8c8655

Reduce deep nesting of header files ...

Reduce the number of header files included from other header
files as much as possible without splitting the files. Use forward
declarations where possible. This allows removal of some unnecessary
"#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__" statements.

Also, review the .c and .S files for which header files really need
including and reorder the #include statements alphabetically.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#31

Change-Id: Iec92fb976334c77453e010b60bcf56f3be72bd3e

Define frequency of system counter in platform code ...

BL3-1 architecture setup code programs the system counter frequency
into the CNTFRQ_EL0 register. This frequency is defined by the
platform, though. This patch introduces a new platform hook that
the architecture setup code can call to retrieve this information.
In the ARM FVP port, this returns the first entry of the frequency
modes table from the memory mapped generic timer.

All system counter setup code has been removed from BL1 as some
platforms may not have initialized the system counters at this stage.
The platform specific settings done exclusively in BL1 have been moved
to BL3-1. In the ARM FVP port, this consists in enabling and
initializing the System level generic timer. Also, the frequency change
request in the counter control register has been set to 0 to make it
explicit it's using the base frequency. The CNTCR_FCREQ() macro has been
fixed in this context to give an entry number rather than a bitmask.

In future, when support for firmware update is implemented, there
is a case where BL1 platform specific code will need to program
the counter frequency. This should be implemented at that time.

This patch also updates the relevant documentation.

It properly fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#24

Change-Id: If95639b279f75d66ac0576c48a6614b5ccb0e84b

Revert "Move architecture timer setup to platform-specific code" ...

This reverts commit 1c297bf
because it introduced a bug: the CNTFRQ_EL0 register was no
longer programmed by all CPUs.  bl31_platform_setup() function
is invoked only in the cold boot path and consequently only
on the primary cpu.

A subsequent commit will correctly implement the necessary changes
to the counter frequency setup code.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#125

Conflicts:

	docs/firmware-design.md
	plat/fvp/bl31_plat_setup.c

Change-Id: Ib584ad7ed069707ac04cf86717f836136ad3ab54

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

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

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

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: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5

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

ARMv8 Trusted Firmware release v0.2