Firmware handoff specification

Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Platform initialisation stages
• 2. Transfer list
  • 2.1. Transfer list requirements
  • 2.2. Transfer list header
    • 2.2.1. TL Flags
  • 2.3. TL entry header
  • 2.4. TL Contents
  • 2.5. Entry-type allocation
  • 2.6. Standard operations
    • 2.6.1. Validating a TL header
    • 2.6.2. Reading a TL
    • 2.6.3. Adding a new TE
    • 2.6.4. Adding a new TE with special data alignment requirement
    • 2.6.5. Creating a TL
    • 2.6.6. Relocating a TL
  • 2.7. Standard transfer entries
    • 2.7.1. Empty entry layout (XFERLIST_VOID)
    • 2.7.2. FDT entry layout (XFERLIST_FDT)
    • 2.7.3. HOB block entry layout (XFERLIST_HOB_B)
    • 2.7.4. HOB list entry layout (XFERLIST_HOB_L)
    • 2.7.5. ACPI table aggregate entry layout (XFERLIST_ACPI_AGGR)
    • 2.7.6. TPM event log table entry layout (XFERLIST_EVLOG)
    • 2.7.7. TPM CRB base address table entry layout (XFERLIST_TPM_CRB_BASE)
    • 2.7.8. Entries related to Trusted Firmware
• 3. Register usage at handoff boundary
  • 3.1. Arm Architecture bindings
    • 3.1.1. AArch64 Receiver
    • 3.1.2. AArch32 Receiver
• 4. References
• 5. Glossary