Line-by-Line Interpretation of Armv8-A Assembly SMP Boot Code
This article provides a line-by-line explanation of the Armv8-A assembly code sourced from Arm® Development Studio. It focuses on the boot sequence of the AArch64 MPCore processor. This code initializes the system from Exception Level 3 (EL3, typically the Secure Monitor mode) and transitions to Exception Level 1 (EL1, typically the OS mode), during which … Read more