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diff --git a/docs/plat/allwinner.rst b/docs/plat/allwinner.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e967dc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/plat/allwinner.rst @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +Allwinner ARMv8 SoCs +==================== + +Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) implements the EL3 firmware layer for Allwinner +SoCs with ARMv8 cores. Only BL31 is used to provide proper EL3 setup and +PSCI runtime services. + +Building TF-A +------------- + +There is one build target per supported SoC: + ++------+-------------------+ +| SoC | TF-A build target | ++======+===================+ +| A64 | sun50i_a64 | ++------+-------------------+ +| H5 | sun50i_a64 | ++------+-------------------+ +| H6 | sun50i_h6 | ++------+-------------------+ +| H616 | sun50i_h616 | ++------+-------------------+ +| H313 | sun50i_h616 | ++------+-------------------+ +| T507 | sun50i_h616 | ++------+-------------------+ +| R329 | sun50i_r329 | ++------+-------------------+ + +To build with the default settings for a particular SoC: + +.. code:: shell + + make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=<build target> DEBUG=1 + +So for instance to build for a board with the Allwinner A64 SoC:: + + make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=sun50i_a64 DEBUG=1 + +Platform-specific build options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The default build options should generate a working firmware image. There are +some build options that allow to fine-tune the firmware, or to disable support +for optional features. + +- ``SUNXI_PSCI_USE_NATIVE`` : Support direct control of the CPU cores powerdown + and powerup sequence by BL31. This requires either support for a code snippet + to be loaded into the ARISC SCP (A64, H5), or the power sequence control + registers to be programmed directly (H6, H616). This supports only basic + control, like core on/off and system off/reset. + This option defaults to 1. If an active SCP supporting the SCPI protocol + is detected at runtime, this control scheme will be ignored, and SCPI + will be used instead, unless support has been explicitly disabled. + +- ``SUNXI_PSCI_USE_SCPI`` : Support control of the CPU cores powerdown and + powerup sequence by talking to the SCP processor via the SCPI protocol. + This allows more advanced power saving techniques, like suspend to RAM. + This option defaults to 1 on SoCs that feature an SCP. If no SCP firmware + using the SCPI protocol is detected, the native sequence will be used + instead. If both native and SCPI methods are included, SCPI will be favoured + if SCP support is detected. + +- ``SUNXI_SETUP_REGULATORS`` : On SoCs that typically ship with a PMIC + power management controller, BL31 tries to set up all needed power rails, + programming them to their respective voltages. That allows bootloader + software like U-Boot to ignore power control via the PMIC. + This setting defaults to 1. In some situations that enables too many + regulators, or some regulators need to be enabled in a very specific + sequence. To avoid problems with those boards, ``SUNXI_SETUP_REGULATORS`` + can bet set to ``0`` on the build command line, to skip the PMIC setup + entirely. Any bootloader or OS would need to setup the PMIC on its own then. + +Installation +------------ + +U-Boot's SPL acts as a loader, loading both BL31 and BL33 (typically U-Boot). +Loading is done from SD card, eMMC or SPI flash, also via an USB debug +interface (FEL). + +After building bl31.bin, the binary must be fed to the U-Boot build system +to include it in the FIT image that the SPL loader will process. +bl31.bin can be either copied (or sym-linked) into U-Boot's root directory, +or the environment variable BL31 must contain the binary's path. +See the respective `U-Boot documentation`_ for more details. + +.. _U-Boot documentation: https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64 + +Memory layout +------------- + +A64, H5 and H6 SoCs +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +BL31 lives in SRAM A2, which is documented to be accessible from secure +world only. Since this SRAM region is very limited (48 KB), we take +several measures to reduce memory consumption. One of them is to confine +BL31 to only 28 bits of virtual address space, which reduces the number +of required page tables (each occupying 4KB of memory). +The mapping we use on those SoCs is as follows: + +:: + + 0 64K 16M 1GB 1G+160M physical address + +-+------+-+---+------+--...---+-------+----+------+---------- + |B| |S|///| |//...///| |////| | + |R| SRAM |C|///| dev |//...///| (sec) |////| BL33 | DRAM ... + |O| |P|///| MMIO |//...///| DRAM |////| | + |M| | |///| |//...///| (32M) |////| | + +-+------+-+---+------+--...---+-------+----+------+---------- + | | | | | | / / / / + | | | | | | / / / / + | | | | | | / / / / + | | | | | | / // / + | | | | | | / / / + +-+------+-+---+------+--+-------+------+ + |B| |S|///| |//| | | + |R| SRAM |C|///| dev |//| sec | BL33 | + |O| |P|///| MMIO |//| DRAM | | + |M| | |///| |//| | | + +-+------+-+---+------+--+-------+------+ + 0 64K 16M 160M 192M 256M virtual address + + +H616 SoC +~~~~~~~~ + +The H616 lacks the secure SRAM region present on the other SoCs, also +lacks the "ARISC" management processor (SCP) we use. BL31 thus needs to +run from DRAM, which prevents our compressed virtual memory map described +above. Since running in DRAM also lifts the restriction of the limited +SRAM size, we use the normal 1:1 mapping with 32 bits worth of virtual +address space. So the virtual addresses used in BL31 match the physical +addresses as presented above. + +Trusted OS dispatcher +--------------------- + +One can boot Trusted OS(OP-TEE OS, bl32 image) along side bl31 image on Allwinner A64. + +In order to include the 'opteed' dispatcher in the image, pass 'SPD=opteed' on the command line +while compiling the bl31 image and make sure the loader (SPL) loads the Trusted OS binary to +the beginning of DRAM (0x40000000). |