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authordavidcunado-arm <david.cunado@arm.com>2017-09-13 14:52:24 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-13 14:52:24 +0100
commitf18f5f9867551d0d21da79e25371a298933aaff1 (patch)
tree3f4c8c34f2cabb6defdab8389a592c9efe885a0c /docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst
parenta747b08e3a60800178a17cd6621dd5a6f27ae98c (diff)
parent96ff26012fceab3e5e3b226cefdbedd0b294f312 (diff)
Merge pull request #1092 from jeenu-arm/errata-workarounds
Errata workarounds
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diff --git a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst
index 5738927c..f74b4593 100644
--- a/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst
+++ b/docs/cpu-specific-build-macros.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ by ARM:
- `Cortex-A53 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice`_
- `Cortex-A57 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice`_
+- `Cortex-A72 MPCore Software Developers 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
@@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ errata workaround is ``ERRATA_<Processor name>_<ID>``, where the ``Processor nam
is for example ``A57`` for the ``Cortex_A57`` CPU.
Refer to the section *CPU errata status reporting* in
-`Firmware Design guide`_ for information on to write errata workaround functions.
+`Firmware Design guide`_ for information on how to write errata workaround
+functions.
All workarounds are disabled by default. The platform is responsible for
enabling these workarounds according to its requirement by defining the
@@ -98,6 +100,15 @@ For Cortex-A57, following errata build flags are defined :
- ``ERRATA_A57_833471``: This applies errata 833471 workaround to Cortex-A57
CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p2 of the CPU.
+- ``ERRATA_A57_859972``: This applies errata 859972 workaround to Cortex-A57
+ CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r1p3 of the CPU.
+
+
+For Cortex-A72, following errata build flags are defined :
+
+- ``ERRATA_A72_859971``: This applies errata 859971 workaround to Cortex-A72
+ CPU. This needs to be enabled only for revision <= r0p3 of the CPU.
+
CPU Specific optimizations
--------------------------
@@ -131,7 +142,8 @@ architecture that can be enabled by the platform as desired.
*Copyright (c) 2014-2016, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
-.. _Cortex-A53 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm048406/index.html
+.. _Cortex-A53 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm048406/Cortex_A53_MPCore_Software_Developers_Errata_Notice.pdf
.. _Cortex-A57 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm049219/cortex_a57_mpcore_software_developers_errata_notice.pdf
+.. _Cortex-A72 MPCore Software Developers Errata Notice: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.epm012079/index.html
.. _Firmware Design guide: firmware-design.rst
.. _Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan0015b/Cortex_A57_Software_Optimization_Guide_external.pdf