Hello!

>> It has nothing to do with KVM. EFI is a firmware, which originates from 
>> Intel, but now adopted by ARM64 architecture too. You can also run
>> it under qemu, if you want to make kind of "full" machine. And it writes 
>> some value to BPR1, which is indeed ignored by Linux kernel.
 
> So were is it used in QEMU?

You can configure any ARM machine to use firmware blob instead of kernel + 
device tree. This way it looks more like a real machine.

> Which machine in hw/arm needs it?

 We ran it on virt, for example.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia


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