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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+#
+
+#
+# Script to interact with Trusted Firmware when resetting to BL1.
+#
+# This script is not standalone and should be sourced by a top expect script.
+#
+
+# Initial boot message won't be present if we're starting at BL31. Skip waiting
+# for them by inspecting the environment variable 'skip_early_boot_msgs'
+if {![info exists ::env(skip_early_boot_msgs)]} {
+	expect_string "Booting Trusted Firmware"
+	expect_string "BL1: Booting BL2"
+	expect_re "BL1: Booting BL3-?1" "BL1: Booting BL31"
+} else {
+	puts "<<Skipping early boot messages from BL1 and BL2>>"
+}