EDDEVARCH, External Debug Device Architecture register

The EDDEVARCH characteristics are:

Purpose

Identifies the programmers' model architecture of the external debug component.

Configuration

Implementation of this register is OPTIONAL.

If FEAT_DoPD is implemented, this register is in the Core power domain.

If FEAT_DoPD is not implemented, this register is in the Debug power domain.

Attributes

EDDEVARCH is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

The EDDEVARCH bit assignments are:

ARCHITECT, bits [31:21]

Defines the architecture of the component. For debug, this is Arm Limited.

Bits [31:28] are the JEP106 continuation code, 0x4.

Bits [27:21] are the JEP106 ID code, 0x3B.

PRESENT, bit [20]

When set to 1, indicates that the DEVARCH is present.

This field is 1 in Armv8.

REVISION, bits [19:16]

Defines the architecture revision. For architectures defined by Arm this is the minor revision.

For debug, the revision defined by Armv8-A is 0x0.

All other values are reserved.

ARCHVER, bits [15:12]

Defines the architecture version of the component. This is the same value as ID_AA64DFR0_EL1.DebugVer and DBGDIDR.Version. The defined values of this field are:

FEAT_Debugv8p4 adds the functionality indicated by the value 0b1001. FEAT_Debugv8p2 adds the functionality indicated by the value 0b1000. If FEAT_VHE is not implemented, the only permitted value is 0b0110.

The fields ARCHVER and ARCHPART together form the field ARCHID, so that ARCHVER is ARCHID[15:12].

ARCHPART, bits [11:0]

The fields ARCHVER and ARCHPART together form the field ARCHID, so that ARCHPART is ARCHID[11:0].

Accessing the EDDEVARCH

EDDEVARCH can be accessed through the external debug interface:

This interface is accessible as follows:

• When FEAT_DoPD is not implemented or IsCorePowered() accesses to this register are RO.
• Otherwise accesses to this register generate an error response.