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author | danh-arm <dan.handley@arm.com> | 2016-04-22 10:13:16 +0100 |
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committer | danh-arm <dan.handley@arm.com> | 2016-04-22 10:13:16 +0100 |
commit | 7607204c0d9aa2d996bd02794ce6f5bbb2b96152 (patch) | |
tree | 57b04ac4825de32cf0e609f011d26634108b4d7f /docs | |
parent | 7ee532a1eeba8effed836c496c0b14311e6a8b52 (diff) | |
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download | arm-trusted-firmware-7607204c0d9aa2d996bd02794ce6f5bbb2b96152.tar.gz |
Merge pull request #601 from sandrine-bailleux-arm/sb/a57-errata-workarounds
Cortex-A57 errata workarounds
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-rw-r--r-- | docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md | 30 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md index c57dc7ee..df2fbd86 100644 --- a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md +++ b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.md @@ -22,14 +22,19 @@ for a specific CPU on a platform. ARM Trusted Firmware exports a series of build flags which control the errata workarounds that are applied to each CPU by the reset handler. The errata details can be found in the CPU specific errata documents published -by ARM. The errata workarounds are implemented for a particular revision -or a set of processor revisions. This is checked by reset handler at runtime. -Each errata workaround is identified by its `ID` as specified in the processor's +by ARM: + +* [Cortex-A53 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice][A53 Errata Notice] +* [Cortex-A57 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice][A57 Errata Notice] + +The errata workarounds are implemented for a particular revision or a set of +processor revisions. This is checked by the reset handler at runtime. Each +errata workaround is identified by its `ID` as specified in the processor's errata notice document. The format of the define used to enable/disable the errata workaround is `ERRATA_<Processor name>_<ID>`, where the `Processor name` is for example `A57` for the `Cortex_A57` CPU. -All workarounds are disabled by default. The platform is reponsible for +All workarounds are disabled by default. The platform is responsible for enabling these workarounds according to its requirement by defining the errata workaround build flags in the platform specific makefile. In case these workarounds are enabled for the wrong CPU revision then the errata @@ -60,6 +65,21 @@ For Cortex-A57, following errata build flags are defined : * `ERRATA_A57_813420`: This applies errata 813420 workaround to Cortex-A57 CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision r0p0 of the CPU. +* `ERRATA_A57_826974`: This applies errata 826974 workaround to Cortex-A57 + CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU. + +* `ERRATA_A57_826977`: This applies errata 826977 workaround to Cortex-A57 + CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU. + +* `ERRATA_A57_828024`: This applies errata 828024 workaround to Cortex-A57 + CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p1 of the CPU. + +* `ERRATA_A57_829520`: This applies errata 829520 workaround to Cortex-A57 + CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU. + +* `ERRATA_A57_833471`: This applies errata 833471 workaround to Cortex-A57 + CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU. + 3. CPU Specific optimizations ------------------------------ @@ -94,3 +114,5 @@ architecture that can be enabled by the platform as desired. _Copyright (c) 2014-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved._ [A57 SW Optimization Guide]: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015b/Cortex_A57_Software_Optimization_Guide_external.pdf +[A53 Errata Notice]: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm048406/index.html +[A57 Errata Notice]: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm049219/cortex_a57_mpcore_software_developers_errata_notice.pdf |