ARMv8 Baremetal Code with SMP Support

This is a demo project for learning ARMv8 Aarch64 ISA and ARMv8 assembly.

It supports:

• FIQ/IRQ handling
• Exception handling
• Page table
• SMP

It requires qemu-system-aarch64 installed to run this project.

make
qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic -smp 2 \
        -kernel krenel.elf

References

• Arm® Architecture Reference Manual Armv8, for Armv8-A architecture profile
• Arm® Power State Coordination Interface - Platform Design Document
• ARM Cortex-A Series Programmer’s Guide for ARMv8-A
• Bare-metal Boot Code for ARMv8-A Processors
• The Linux Kernel