7.2.5. TC Total Compute Platform

Some of the features of TC platform referenced in TF-A include:

  • A System Control Processor to abstract power and system management tasks away from application processors. The RAM firmware for SCP is included in the TF-A FIP and is loaded by AP BL2 from FIP in flash to SRAM for copying by SCP (SCP has access to AP SRAM).

  • GICv4

  • Trusted Board Boot

  • SCMI

  • MHUv2

Currently, the main difference between TC0 (TARGET_PLATFORM=0), TC1 (TARGET_PLATFORM=1), TC2 (TARGET_PLATFORM=2) platforms w.r.t to TF-A is the CPUs supported as below:

  • TC0 has support for Cortex A510, Cortex A710 and Cortex X2. (Note TC0 is now deprecated)

  • TC1 has support for Cortex A510, Cortex A715 and Cortex X3. (Note TC1 is now deprecated)

  • TC2 has support for Cortex A520, Cortex A720 and Cortex x4.

7.2.5.1. Boot Sequence

The execution begins from SCP_BL1. SCP_BL1 powers up the AP which starts executing AP_BL1 and then executes AP_BL2 which loads the SCP_BL2 from FIP to SRAM. The SCP has access to AP SRAM. The address and size of SCP_BL2 is communicated to SCP using SDS. SCP copies SCP_BL2 from SRAM to its own RAM and starts executing it. The AP then continues executing the rest of TF-A stages including BL31 runtime stage and hands off executing to Non-secure world (u-boot).

7.2.5.1.1. Build Procedure (TF-A only)

  • Obtain Arm toolchain and set the CROSS_COMPILE environment variable to point to the toolchain folder.

  • Build TF-A:

    make PLAT=tc BL33=<path_to_uboot.bin> \
    SCP_BL2=<path_to_scp_ramfw.bin> TARGET_PLATFORM={0,1,2} all fip
    

    Enable TBBR by adding the following options to the make command:

    MBEDTLS_DIR=<path_to_mbedtls_directory>  \
    TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=1 \
    GENERATE_COT=1 \
    ARM_ROTPK_LOCATION=devel_rsa  \
    ROT_KEY=plat/arm/board/common/rotpk/arm_rotprivk_rsa.pem
    

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