Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm64
Note: This post is only kept up for historical reasons. The current ExaGear EULA doesn’t allow using ExaGear outside of Huawei Kunpeng processors. ExaGear is… Read More »Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm64
Arm
Subjects related to Arm processors and platforms.
The checkra1n open-sourcing process: pongoOS 2.4.5
pongoOS 2.4.5 is now available at https://github.com/checkra1n/pongoOS. pongoOS 2.4.5 open-sources the SEP exploit, making that part fully open-source for the very first time. This makes… Read More »The checkra1n open-sourcing process: pongoOS 2.4.5
Houdini: run Arm 32-bit and 64-bit applications on an x86_64 system
Intel Houdini is a dynamic binary translation layer to run Arm applications on x86_64 systems. Its targeted platform is Android, but you can use it… Read More »Houdini: run Arm 32-bit and 64-bit applications on an x86_64 system
PCIe quirks on Arm systems w/ ACPI
Taking a look at the list of platforms which have quirks in drivers/acpi/pci_mcfg.c for Arm today: AWS Graviton Qualcomm QDF2432 HiSilicon HIP05/06/07 Cavium ThunderX X-Gene v1… Read More »PCIe quirks on Arm systems w/ ACPI
Standards on Arm platforms for OS support
On the firmware side, an ideally standard Arm machine boots using UEFI and ACPI. The other CPUs are initialised with PSCI and dynamic power management… Read More »Standards on Arm platforms for OS support