Hi,
On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@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.
> 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