ARMv8 backwards compatibility with ARMv7

Hi there, I have been going through a lot of ARMv8 documents, and I have a very basic question: -Can I take a Linux Kernel, compiled for a ARMv7 device, and run it on an ARMv8 device in Aarch32 execution...
ELF entry point in thumb mode (armv7/aarch32)

Hi ! We are writing an OS targeting 32 bits ARM platform, where binaries can be compiled in ARM or in Thumb mode. At the moment, to execute a new process, I load the info from an ELF, set lr_usr to the...
GICv3 and aarch32

Hi, I just started to port our secure OS on an armv8 board, with a GIC-v3. The EL1 non secure OS will be the vendor Linux OS, which runs in aarch64. The EL1 secure OS will be our secure OS, which runs...