MDRAR_EL1, Monitor Debug ROM Address Register

The MDRAR_EL1 characteristics are:

Purpose

Defines the base physical address of a 4KB-aligned memory-mapped debug component, usually a ROM table that locates and describes the memory-mapped debug components in the system. Armv8 deprecates any use of this register.

Configuration

AArch64 System register MDRAR_EL1 bits [63:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register DBGDRAR[63:0] .

Attributes

MDRAR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

The MDRAR_EL1 bit assignments are:

Bits [63:52]

Reserved, RES0.

ROMADDR[51:48], bits [51:48]

When ARMv8.2-LPA is implemented:

Extension to ROMADDR[47:12]. See ROMADDR[47:12] for more details.

Otherwise:

Reserved, RES0.

ROMADDR[47:12], bits [47:12]

Bits[47:12] of the ROM table physical address.

When ARMv8.2-LPA is implemented, ROMADDR[51:48] forms the upper part of the address value. Otherwise, ROMADDR[51:48] is RES0.

If the physical address size in bits (PAsize) is less than 52, then the register bits corresponding to ROMADDR [51:PAsize] are RES0.

Bits [11:0] of the ROM table physical address are zero.

Arm strongly recommends that bits ROMADDR[(PAsize-1):32] are zero in any system that supports AArch32 at the highest implemented Exception level.

In an implementation that includes EL3, ROMADDR is an address in Non-secure memory. It is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in Secure memory.

Bits [11:2]

Reserved, RES0.

Valid, bits [1:0]

This field indicates whether the ROM Table address is valid. The permitted values of this field are:

Other values are reserved.

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then
    UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then
    if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && MDCR_EL2.<TDE,TDRA> != '00' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && MDCR_EL3.TDA == '1' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    else
        return MDRAR_EL1;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then
    if HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && MDCR_EL3.TDA == '1' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    else
        return MDRAR_EL1;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then
    return MDRAR_EL1;