Re: [edk2] AARCH64 UEFI and EL3

2014-08-04 Thread Cohen, Eugene
To be more clear, I wouldn't call this "UEFI in EL3" since UEFI is really the OS/driver interface, instead I would call it something like "SEC/PEI in EL3". Note that SEC and PEI are described in the PI specification and don't existing in the UEFI specification. We too are looking at this same

[edk2] AARCH64 UEFI and EL3

2014-08-04 Thread bhupesh.sha...@freescale.com
Hi, The current AARCH64 UEFI is designed to run entirely in EL2 with the assumption that the ARM Trusted FW (ATF) running in EL3 and launching UEFI in EL2. As a result if we try to use the UEFI bootloader as a bare-metal debug tool (w/o the ATF, BootROM and so on..), we get an assertion failure