• ARMv7 how a program can check whether it is in secure state or not ?
    I think all is in the title. When in secure, reading the SCR register with MRC will succeed. But in non secure state, the MRC fails and I don't get any undef or abort. Is it my mistake here ? Or it...
  • Security Extensions in ARMv7
    "the Security Extensions integrate hardware security features into the architecture". Please can anybody make clear what exactly is "security" in hardware point of view in an ARMv7-A profile..? can you...
  • Attempt to set Secure Privileged Mode in armv7 A8 (using am3358 BBB silicon)?
    Hello to the ARM experts, I am relatively new to ARM hardware. Usually I use off the shelf systems (various Linux distros) to set up the BBB, as referent design. Recently, I have started to dive more...
  • How does ARM11 respond to a non-secure interrupt in secure mode?
    Note: This was originally posted on 19th March 2009 at http://forums.arm.com Hi All, Assuming that ARM11 is running a secure process and receives a non-secure IRQ or FIQ, how does ARM11 respond to a non...
  • ARMv7 architecture
    Can anyone share the ARMv7 architecture document to download ? - Hari.