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MDRAR_EL1: Monitor Debug ROM Address Register

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

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RES0ROMADDR
ROMADDRRES0Valid

Bits [63:56]

Reserved, RES0.

ROMADDR, bits [55:12]

ROMADDR encoding when FEAT_D128 is implemented and MDRAR_EL1.Valid != 0b00

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ROMADDR
ROMADDR

ROMADDR, bits [43:0]

Bits [55:12] of the ROM table physical address.

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

For implementations with fewer than 56 physical address bits, the corresponding upper bits of this field are RES0

In an implementation that includes EL3, ROMADDR is an address in Non-secure PA space. It is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in Secure PA space. If FEAT_RME is implemented, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in the Root or Realm PA spaces.

Arm strongly recommends that bits ROMADDR[(PAsize-1):32] are zero in any system where the implementation only supports execution in AArch32 state.

This field has an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED value.

Access to this field is RO.

ROMADDR encoding when FEAT_D128 is not implemented, FEAT_LPA is implemented and MDRAR_EL1.Valid != 0b00

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RES0ROMADDR
ROMADDR

Bits [43:40]

Reserved, RES0.

ROMADDR, bits [39:0]

Bits [51:12] of the ROM table physical address.

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

For implementations with fewer than 52 physical address bits, the corresponding upper bits of this field are RES0

In an implementation that includes EL3, ROMADDR is an address in Non-secure PA space. It is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in Secure PA space. If FEAT_RME is implemented, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in the Root or Realm PA spaces.

Arm strongly recommends that bits ROMADDR[(PAsize-1):32] are zero in any system where the implementation only supports execution in AArch32 state.

This field has an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED value.

Access to this field is RO.

ROMADDR encoding when FEAT_D128 is not implemented, FEAT_LPA is not implemented and MDRAR_EL1.Valid != 0b00

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RES0ROMADDR
ROMADDR

Bits [43:36]

Reserved, RES0.

ROMADDR, bits [35:0]

Bits [39:12] of the ROM table physical address.

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

For implementations with fewer than 48 physical address bits, the corresponding upper bits of this field are RES0

In an implementation that includes EL3, ROMADDR is an address in Non-secure PA space. It is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in Secure PA space. If FEAT_RME is implemented, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the ROM table is also accessible in Root or Realm PA spaces.

Arm strongly recommends that bits ROMADDR[(PAsize-1):32] are zero in any system where the implementation only supports execution in AArch32 state.

This field has an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED value.

Access to this field is RO.

ROMADDR encoding when MDRAR_EL1.Valid == 0b00

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UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN

Bits [43:0]

Reserved, UNKNOWN.

Bits [11:2]

Reserved, RES0.

Valid, bits [1:0]

This field indicates whether the ROM Table address is valid.

The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:

ValidMeaning
0b00

ROM Table address is not valid. Software must ignore ROMADDR.

0b11

ROM Table address is valid.

Other values are reserved.

Arm recommends implementations set this field to zero.

Access to this field is RO.

Accessing MDRAR_EL1

Accesses to this register use the following encodings in the System register encoding space:

MRS <Xt>, MDRAR_EL1

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b100b0000b00010b00000b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3.TDA == '1' then UNDEFINED; elsif EL2Enabled() && MDCR_EL2.<TDE,TDRA> != '00' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3.TDA == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else X[t, 64] = MDRAR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3.TDA == '1' then UNDEFINED; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3.TDA == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else X[t, 64] = MDRAR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = MDRAR_EL1;