Upstreaming A3700

[jan-kiszka]

What are the plans to get the A3700 support into upstream? https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/blob/master/docs/marvell/build.txt talks about that platform already, but the bits aren't there yet. Please clarify.

Alternatively, I can open a ticket on upstream to remove those bits from the docs so that users like me don't get confused when trying to build non-existing code.

[kostapr]

I was planning to push A3700 support this August, but my work gets delayed since we want to migrate the SERDES initialization to lower EL levels, while TF-A executes it through SMCC calls. The same mechanism already implemented in A8K family. So I believe the final A3700 pull request will be created in September-October this year.

[jan-kiszka]

@kostapr Thanks, good that there is progress in sight!

I was recently discussing with Debian how to improve the user experience of ESPRESSObin by packaging a recent upstream bootloader (https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2018/08/msg00001.html) where ATF would be a building block. I have some further issues around u-boot, though. Will put you on CC when reporting.

[dhewg]

@kostapr From a quick glance, it looks like a3700 support landed upstream. Is that "done", so I can just use that for my espressobin, or are there any missing bits which still need to be upstreamed?

[kostapr]

@dhewg I am not aware of any missing parts there. Everything should be aligned with upstream sources.