MLECO-3070: Further HAL cleanup.

Cleaning up HAL sources by removing unnecessary redirections
with function pointers. The "platform packages" under HAL are
now streamlined enough to not need any major HAL wrapping (as
was the case before).

This allows us to have a very thin HAL layer that sits on top
of the platform and compnent packs. Also helps in getting rid
of "hal platform" pointer being passed around in the code to
use any HAL functionality.

Change-Id: I04b2057f972aad7a5cfb4a396bcdf147c9f9ef1c
Signed-off-by: Kshitij Sisodia <kshitij.sisodia@arm.com>
diff --git a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/platform_drivers.h b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/platform_drivers.h
index 31bb682..7d075e7 100644
--- a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/platform_drivers.h
+++ b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/platform_drivers.h
@@ -39,10 +39,9 @@
 void platform_release(void);
 
 /**
- * @brief   Sets the platform name.
- * @param[out] name     Name of the platform to be set
- * @param[in]  size     Size of the input buffer
+ * @brief   Gets the platform name.
+ * @return  Pointer to the name
  */
-void platform_name(char* name, size_t size);
+const char* platform_name(void);
 
 #endif /* PLATFORM_DRIVERS_H */
diff --git a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/timer_simple_platform.h b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/timer_simple_platform.h
index 40acd03..20006cc 100644
--- a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/timer_simple_platform.h
+++ b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/include/timer_simple_platform.h
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@
 void platform_reset_counters(void);
 
 /**
- * @brief   Gets the current counter values.
- * @returns A populated instance of pmu_counters struct.
+ * @brief       Gets the current counter values.
+ * @param[out]  Pointer to a pmu_counters object.
  **/
-pmu_counters platform_get_counters(void);
+void platform_get_counters(pmu_counters* counters);
 
 /**
  * @brief   System tick interrupt handler.
diff --git a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/platform_drivers.c b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/platform_drivers.c
index 177ba70..3e04323 100644
--- a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/platform_drivers.c
+++ b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/platform_drivers.c
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 
 #endif /* ARM_NPU */
 
+/* Platform name */
+static const char* s_platform_name = DESIGN_NAME;
+
 int platform_init(void)
 {
     SystemCoreClockUpdate();    /* From start up code */
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@
 #endif /* ARM_NPU */
 
     /* Print target design info */
-    info("Target system design: %s\n", DESIGN_NAME);
+    info("Target system design: %s\n", s_platform_name);
 
     return 0;
 }
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@
     __disable_irq();
 }
 
-void platform_name(char* name, size_t size)
+const char* platform_name(void)
 {
-    strncpy(name, DESIGN_NAME, size);
+    return s_platform_name;
 }
diff --git a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/timer_simple_platform.c b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/timer_simple_platform.c
index 94af308..3bb91d0 100644
--- a/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/timer_simple_platform.c
+++ b/source/hal/source/platform/simple/source/timer_simple_platform.c
@@ -63,12 +63,10 @@
     debug("system tick config ready\n");
 }
 
-pmu_counters platform_get_counters(void)
+void platform_get_counters(pmu_counters* counters)
 {
-    pmu_counters platform_counters = {
-        .num_counters = 0,
-        .initialised = true
-    };
+    counters->num_counters = 0;
+    counters->initialised = true;
     uint32_t i = 0;
 
 #if defined (ARM_NPU)
@@ -78,20 +76,20 @@
                 npu_counters.npu_evt_counters[i].counter_value,
                 npu_counters.npu_evt_counters[i].name,
                 npu_counters.npu_evt_counters[i].unit,
-                &platform_counters);
+                counters);
     }
     for (i = 0; i < ETHOSU_DERIVED_NCOUNTERS; ++i) {
         add_pmu_counter(
                 npu_counters.npu_derived_counters[i].counter_value,
                 npu_counters.npu_derived_counters[i].name,
                 npu_counters.npu_derived_counters[i].unit,
-                &platform_counters);
+                counters);
     }
     add_pmu_counter(
             npu_counters.npu_total_ccnt,
             "NPU TOTAL",
             "cycles",
-            &platform_counters);
+            counters);
 #endif /* defined (ARM_NPU) */
 
 #if defined(CPU_PROFILE_ENABLED)
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@
             Get_SysTick_Cycle_Count(),
             "CPU TOTAL",
             "cycles",
-            &platform_counters);
+            counters);
 #endif /* defined(CPU_PROFILE_ENABLED) */
 
 #if !defined(CPU_PROFILE_ENABLED)
@@ -109,8 +107,6 @@
     UNUSED(i);
 #endif /* !defined(ARM_NPU) */
 #endif /* !defined(CPU_PROFILE_ENABLED) */
-
-    return platform_counters;
 }
 
 void SysTick_Handler(void)