Hi, On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Pavel Fedin <p.fe...@samsung.com> wrote:
> 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. > > I don't have any "blob" I can only run virt. > > Which machine in hw/arm needs it? > > We ran it on virt, for example. > > And how did you accessed the register and for what purpose? What should be the expected outcome. > Kind regards, > Pavel Fedin > Expert Engineer > Samsung Electronics Research center Russia > > In general I can't release something that I don't understand and can't test.
