Ensure BL31 does not print to boot console by default
authorSoby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:28:43 +0000 (11:28 +0000)
committerSoby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:38:29 +0000 (16:38 +0000)
commit78e61613738e53738e1cc8ddefd4cef2f2443f4c
treed6ec13195f7839b1f0b7d6db0513c1aa4834fd7b
parent487461cb6e367a5db397c34ed75fbcfdd6bda1c9
Ensure BL31 does not print to boot console by default

It is not ideal for BL31 to continue to use boot console at
runtime which could be potentially uninitialized. This patch
introduces a new optional platform porting API
`bl31_plat_runtime_setup()` which allows the platform to perform
any BL31 runtime setup just prior to BL31 exit during cold boot.
The default weak implementation of this function will invoke
`console_uninit()` which will suppress any BL31 runtime logs.

On the ARM Standard platforms, there is an anomaly that
the boot console will be reinitialized on resumption from
system suspend in `arm_system_pwr_domain_resume()`. This
will be resolved in the following patch.

NOTE: The default weak definition of `bl31_plat_runtime_setup()`
disables the BL31 console. To print the BL31 runtime
messages, platforms must override this API and initialize a
runtime console.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#328

Change-Id: Ibaf8346fcceb447fe1a5674094c9f8eb4c09ac4a
bl31/bl31_main.c
docs/porting-guide.md
include/plat/common/platform.h
plat/common/aarch64/plat_common.c