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fix(tc): enable dynamic feature detection of FEAT_SVE for NormalWorld
authorJayanth Dodderi Chidanand <jayanthdodderi.chidanand@arm.com>
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:39:22 +0000 (10:39 +0100)
committerJayanth Dodderi Chidanand <jayanthdodderi.chidanand@arm.com>
Mon, 3 Apr 2023 16:05:38 +0000 (17:05 +0100)
commit67265f2f6d7604147080033a1c99150e9a020f28
treef7528227c041feef33c3b9804a466f9bba5658f3
parent18459571328c6b09954f4278a86aefc20348f42b
fix(tc): enable dynamic feature detection of FEAT_SVE for NormalWorld

Currently, TF-A supports three states for feature flags:
0: FEAT_DISABLED
1: FEAT_STATE_ALWAYS (for fixed/real platforms)
2: FEAT_STATE_CHECK  (for configurable platforms)
to meet the feature detection requirements dynamically, mainly
targetting configurable/Fixed Virtual platforms.

With this mechanism in place, we are refactoring all the existing
feature flags to the FEAT_STATE_CHECK option(=2), including
FEAT_SVE explicitly for FVPs.

SVE Patch Reference:
https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/19888/25

This newly introduced change, breaks the existing behaviour especially
for virtual platforms, who have set the ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS flag to 1.

Moving ahead, we advise the platforms to take the following steps while
enabling the features:

1. If the platform is configurable (virtual), and want to ensure feature
detection happens dynamically at runtime, set the build flags to
FEAT_STATE_CHECK(=2).

2. For real(fixed) platforms, depending on the features supported by the
hardware and platform wants to enable it, platforms could set build
flags to FEAT_STATE_ALWAYS(=1).

(Note: Only the non-secure world enablement related build flags have
been refactored to take the values within 0 to 2. As earlier Secure
world enablement flags will still remain boolean.)

Henceforth, in order to keep it aligned with this tri-state mechanism,
changing the TC platform default to the now supported dynamic
option(=2), so the right decision can be made by the code at runtime.

Change-Id: I4c1ebeb55a00a7f148fac1573a6694b7c02a0a81
Signed-off-by: Jayanth Dodderi Chidanand <jayanthdodderi.chidanand@arm.com>
plat/arm/board/tc/platform.mk