add base firmware framework

this commit adds support for architecture, nvic,
framework and build tools

Change-Id: I0b0621dfafece9b2f08913311bcd8a3c456b6ff0
Signed-off-by: Tushar Khandelwal <tushar.khandelwal@arm.com>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2019, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *     Element definitions.
+ */
+
+#ifndef FWK_ELEMENT_H
+#define FWK_ELEMENT_H
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+/*!
+ * \addtogroup GroupLibFramework Framework
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/*!
+ * \defgroup GroupElement Elements
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/*!
+ * \brief Element descriptor.
+ */
+struct fwk_element {
+    /*! Element name */
+    const char *name;
+
+    /*! Number of sub-elements */
+    size_t sub_element_count;
+
+    /*!
+     * \brief Pointer to element-specific configuration data
+     *
+     * \details Because each element is expected to have some associated
+     *     configuration data this pointer must be non-NULL for the framework
+     *     to consider the element as valid.
+     *
+     *     A fake, non-NULL pointer should be provided in the case where no
+     *     element-specific configuration data is available. In this case the
+     *     module code must not make any attempt to dereference or store the
+     *     pointer during element initialization.
+     */
+    const void *data;
+};
+
+/*!
+ * @}
+ */
+
+/*!
+ * @}
+ */
+
+#endif /* FWK_ELEMENT_H */