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Appendix C. Revisions

This appendix describes the technical changes between released issues of this book.

Table C.1. Issue A
Change	Location
First release	-

Table C.2. Differences between issue A and issue B
Change	Location
Clarified Load/Store Unit and address generation.	Figure 1.1.
Changed fast loop mode to small loop mode.	Figure 1.1 Small loop mode on page 1-3 Instruction cache features About power consumption control on page 12-6.
Changed branch prediction to dynamic branch prediction.	Features About the L1 instruction side memory system Branch instructions.
Changed LI cache coherency to L1 data cache coherency.	Cortex-A9 variants.
Corrected Processor Feature Register 0 reset value.	Table 4-29 on page 4-46.
Made PMSWINC descriptions consistent.	Table 4-29 on page 4-46 Software Increment Register on page 4-100.
Updated MIDR bits [3:0] from 0 to 1.	Table 4-1 on page 4-5.
Corrected ID_MMFR3 [23:20] bit value to `0x1`.	Table 4-42 on page 4-50.
Corrected AFE bit description.	Table 4-51 on page 4-62.
Corrected Auxiliary Control Register bit field.	Table 4-52 on page 4-66 Figure 4-36 on page 4-66.
Corrected S parameter values.	Set/Way format on page 4-83.
Made descriptions of bits [11], [10], and [8] consistent with table.	Figure 4-41 on page 4-87.
Corrected description of event `0x68`, architecturally removed.	Table 4-80 on page 4-123.
Corrected TLB lockdown entries number from 8 to 4.	c10, TLB Lockdown Register on page 4-134.
Corrected A, I, and F bit descriptions.	c12, Interrupt Status Register on page 4-147.
Changed number of micro TLB entries from 8 to 32.	Micro TLB.
Removed repeated information about cache types.	Micro TLB.
Amended IRGN bits description from TTBCR to TTBR0/TTRBR1.	Main TLB.
Added note about invalidating the caches and BTAC before use.	About the L1 memory system.
Added parity support scheme information section.	Parity error support.
Listed and described L2 master interfaces, M0 and M1.	Cortex-A9 L2 interface.
Added cross reference to DBSCR external description. Extended footnote to include reference to the DBSCR external view.	Table 10.1.
Corrected DBGDSCR description with the addition of internal and external view descriptions.	CP14 c1, Debug Status and Control Register (DBGDSCR) on page 8-9.
Re-ordered and extended MOE bits descriptions.	Table 8-2 on page 8-10.
Added more cross-references from Table 10-1.	CP14 c1, Debug Status and Control Register (DBGDSCR) on page 8-9 Device Power-down and Reset Status Register (DBGPRSR) on page 8-27 Integration Mode Control Register (DBGITCTRL) on page 8-45 Claim Tag Clear Register (DBGCLAIMCLR) on page 8-47 Lock Access Register (DBGLAR) on page 8-48 Lock Status Register (DBGLSR) on page 8-49 Authentication Status Register (DBGAUTHSTATUS) on page 8-49 Device Type Register (DBGDEVTYPE) on page 8-50.
Corrected Table 10-1 footnotes.	Table 10.1.
Corrected byte address field entries.	Table 10.8.
Corrected interrupt signal descriptions.	Table A.3.
Extended AXI USER descriptions.	Table A.8 Table A.11 Table A.14.

Table C.3. Differences between issue B and issue C
Change	Location
Removed 2.8.1 LE and BE-8 accesses on a 64-bit wide bus.	-
Removed Chapter 4 Unaligned and Mixed-Endian Data Access Support.	-
Removed the power management signal BISTSCLAMP.	-
Added dynamic high level clock gating.	Dynamic high level clock gating on page 2-9
Updated TLB information.	Table 1-1 on page 1-10, Table 4-10 on page 4-15, Table 4-37 on page 4-44
Shortened ID_MMF3[15:12] description.	Memory Model Features Register 3 on page 4-49
Updated ACTLR to include reference to PL310 optimizations.	Auxiliary Control Register on page 4-64
Added information about a second replacement strategy. Selection done by SCTLR.RR bit.	System Control Register
Extended event information.	Cortex-A9 specific events on page 4-32
Added DEFLAGS[6:0].	DEFLAGS[6:0] on page 4-37, Performance monitoring signals
Added Power Control Register description.	Power Control Register on page 4-63
Added PL310 optimizations to L2 memory interface description.	Optimized accesses to the L2 memory interface
Added watchpoint address masking.	Watchpoint Control Registers
Added debug request restart diagram.	Effects of resets on debug registers
Added CPUCLKOFF information.	Table A.4,Unregistered signals on page B-3
Added DECLKOFF information.	Table A.4,Unregistered signals on page B-3
Added MAXCLKLATENCY[2:0] information.	Configuration signals
Extended PMUEVENT bus description.	Performance monitoring signals
Added PMUSECURE and PMUPRIV.	Performance monitoring signals
Updated description of serializing behavior of `DMB`.	Serializing instructions

Table C.4. Differences between issue C and issue D
Change	Location
Included Preload Engine (PE) in block diagram	Figure 1.1
Amended interrupt signals	Figure 1.1
Clarified data engine options	Data engine
Clarified system design components	System design components
Clarified Compliance	Compliance
Added PE to features	Features
Included PE and PE FIFO size in configurable options	Configurable options
Clarified NEON SIMD and FPU options	Table 1.1
Added Test Features section	Test features
Reworded the PTM interface section	Performance monitoring
Added a new section for Virtualization of interrupts	Virtualization of interrupts
Included NEON SIMD clock gating in power control description	Power Control Register
Replaced nDERESET with nNEONRESET	Reset modes
Added nWDRESET
Added nPERIPHRESET
Changed voltage domain boundaries and description	Figure 2.4
2.5.4 Date Engine logic reset replaced	MPE SIMD logic reset
Cortex-A9 input signals DECLAMP removed, level shifters reference removed	Communication to the power management controller
Table 3-1 J and T bit encoding removed	-
The Jazelle extension on page 3-3 moved	The Jazelle Extension
NEON technology on page 3-4 renamed and rewritten	Advanced SIMD architecture
3.4 Processor operating states removed	-
3.5 Data types removed	-
Multiprocessing Extensions section added	Multiprocessing Extensions
3.6 Memory formats renamed and moved	Memory model
3.8 Security Extensions overview renamed and moved	Security Extensions architecture
Removed content, tables and figures from 4.1 that duplicates ARM Architecture Reference Manual material	About system control
4.2 Duplicates of ARM Architecture Reference Manual material removed, section renamed	Register summary
4.3 Duplicates of ARM Architecture Reference Manual material removed, section renamed	Register descriptions
Footnote e removed	Table 4.3
Preload Engine registers added	c11 registers
-	PLE ID Register
-	PLE Activity Status Register
-	PLE FIFO Status Register
-	Preload Engine User Accessibility Register
-	Preload Engine Parameters Control Register
4.4 CP14 Jazelle registers and 4.5 CP14 Jazelle register descriptions in a new chapter	Chapter 5 Jazelle DBX registers
Chapter 5 Memory Management Unit, 5.6 MMU software-accessible registers section removed	-
Level 1 Memory System chapter, Cortex-A9 cache policies section removed	-
Prefetch hint to the L2 memory interface, description rewritten and extended	Prefetch hint to the L2 memory interface
Clarifications of BRESP and cache controller behavior	Early BRESP
Write full line of zeros, signal name corrected to AWUSERM0[7]	Write full line of zeros
Speculative coherent requests section added	Speculative coherent requests
Removed sentence about tying unused bits of PARITYFAIL HIGH	Parity error support
Added PE description	Chapter 9 Preload Engine
Added PMU description	Chapter 11 Performance Monitoring Unit
Debug chapter, About debug systems removed	-
Debug chapter, Debugging modes removed	-
Duplicates of ARM Architecture Reference Manual material removed	-
External debug interface, description of PADDRDBG[12:0] added	External debug interface
Debug APB interface section added	Debug APB Interface
Amended and extended signals descriptions, source destination column added	Appendix A Signal Descriptions
PMUEVENT[46] description corrected	Table A.17
PMUEVENT[47] description corrected	Table A.17
Removed AC Characteristics Appendix	-

No differences between issue D and issue E.

Table C.5. Differences between issue D and issue F
Change	Location
PL310 renamed L2C-310	Throughout the book
VFPv3 corrected to VFPv3 D-32	Media Processing Engine
Cortex-A9 FPU hardware description rewritten for clarity	Floating-Point Unit
SCU description extended	Cortex-A9 variants
Dynamic branch prediction description added	Dynamic branch prediction
Final paragraph removed	Energy efficiency features
WFI/WFE corrected to Standby	Table 2.2
Renamed and rewritten for clarity	Standby modes
Dormant mode clamping information removed	Dormant mode
IEM support renamed and rewritten	Power domains
Repeated material removed	About the programmers model
Debug register description corrected	Table 4.2
Main ID Register values for r2p1 and r2p2 added	Table 4.2
Debug register name corrected	Table 4.2
Descriptions clarified and footnote added.	Table 4.30
Purpose description extended	Cache Size Identification Register
System Control Register value corrected, and footnotes amended	Table 4.3
Bit [17] function corrected	Table 4.35
Footnote d corrected	Table 4.15
Purpose description extended	Power Control Register
Configurations description corrected	Configuration Base Address Register
Chapter renamed	Chapter 5 Jazelle DBX registers
6.1 application specific corrected to address space specific	About the MMU
Unified Main TLB description clarified	Memory Management Unit
Duplicate information about page sizes removed
ASID description corrected and extended, and cross-reference added
TLB match process duplicate information about page sizes removed	TLB match process
Synchronous and asynchronous aborts incorrect cross-reference removed	Synchronous and asynchronous aborts
Cache features cross-reference corrected	Cache features
Implementation information removed	Cache features
Return stack predictions ARM or Thumb state replaced by instruction state	Return stack predictions
DSB section added	About DSB
AXI master 0 interface attributes corrections to values	Table 8.1
Debug chapter moved to before PMU chapter
Figure redrawn	Figure 10.2
Corrections to bit format	Table 10.1
Footnote about CLUSTERID values added	Table 4.16
Value column added	Table 10.10
DBGCPUDONE description extended	DBGCPUDONE
PMU management registers section added	PMU management registers
Signal descriptions extended	Configuration signals
Signal descriptions extended, information repeated from AXI removed	Table A.8
AWBURSTM0[1:0]
AWLENM0[3:0]
AWLOCKM0[1:0]
Signal descriptions extended, information repeated from AXI removed	Table A.11
ARLENM0[3:0]
ARLOCKM0[1:0]
Title changed	AXI Master1 signals instruction accesses
Information repeated from AXI removed	Table A.14
ARLENM1[3:0]
PMUEVENT[46] and PMUEVENT[47] corrected	Table A.17
Introduction reduced, and note about `DSB` behavior added.	Serializing instructions

Table C.6. Differences between issue F and issue G
Change	Location	Affects
Update description of transition from standby to run mode	Standby modes	All revisions
Addition of REVIDR-	c15 registers	r3p0
Addition of REVIDR-	Revision ID register	r3p0
Data cache no longer supports round robin replacement policy	Table 4.35 Memory system	From r2p0
Update description of accessing the Jazelle Configurable Opcode Translation Table Register	Jazelle Configurable Opcode Translation Table Register	All revisions
Clarified implementation-defined aspect of invalidating TLBs	About the L1 memory system	All revisions
Added information about cache policies	Cortex-A9 behavior for Normal Memory Cacheable memory regions	All revisions
AWUSERM0[8:0] encodings table corrected	Table 8.5	All revisions
Update the introduction to debug register features	Debug register features	All revisions
Remove reference to PMU registers from Debug chapter	Table 10.1	All revisions
Update introduction to debug register summary	Debug register summary	All revisions
Remove reference to DBGDSCCR	Table 10.1 Debug register descriptions	All revisions
Update description of BVR	Table 10.5	All revisions
Move debug management registers information from debug registers summary to debug management registers	Table 10.1 Table 10.9	All revisions
Update description of debug management registers	Debug management registers	All revisions
Update description of DBGITCTRL and DBGDEVID registers	Table 10.9	All revisions
Update description of external debug interface	External debug interface	All revisions
Update introduction to PMU register summary	PMU register summary	All revisions
Remove reference to Processor ID Registers from Debug chapter	Table 11.1	All revisions
Update descriptions of PMICTRL and PMDEVID	Table 11.2	All revisions
Update description of PMU management registers	PMU management registers	All revisions
Update description of performance monitoring events	Performance monitoring events	All revisions
Updated description of PENABLEDBG signal	Table A.26	All revisions
CoreLink Level 2 Cache Controller renamed	Throughout document	All revisions

Table C.7. Differences between issue G and issue H
Change	Location	Affects
Updated hardware configuration options for the TLB, BTAC and GHB sizes, and the number of entries in the Instruction micro TLB.	Table 1.1	r4p0
Update SCR register description	c1 registers	All revisions
Update PRRR and NMRR register descriptions	c10 registers	All revisions
Change to revision number	Table 4.28	r4p0
Updated TLB Type Register description	TLB Type Register	r4p0
Updated TLB description	About the MMU	r4p0
Updated TLB description	Main TLB	r4p0
Updated BTAC description	About the L1 instruction side memory system	r4p0
Added description of an enhanced data prefetching mechanism.	Data prefetching	r4p0
Updated parity error support description	Parity error support	r4p0
Updated description of PLE Program New Channel operation	PLE Program New Channel operation	All revisions
Updated heading of table describing Meaning of BVR as specified by BCR bits [22:20]	Table 10.5	All revisions
Updated description of PMU architectural events	Table 11.5	All revision
Added new PMU events	Table 11.6	r4p0
Updated description of WFE and WFI standby signals	Table A.6	All revisions
Updated description of path optimization	Load and store instructions	All revisions

Table C.8. Differences between issue H and issue I
Change	Location	Affects
Revision number changes only.	Main ID Register	r4p1

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