qemu-system-aarch64 entering el1 when emulating a53 power up
QEMU’s Cortex-A53 emulation by default only emulates a CPU with EL1, not EL2 or EL3, and therefore (as the architecture requires) we boot up in EL1. If you want a CPU with EL2 or EL3 you need to specifically enable it on the command line, with -machine virtualization=on to enable EL2, and -machine secure=on to … Read more