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What's EL2 exactly?
by asddubs 3y ago
What's EL2 exactly?
- baby_souffle 3y ago> What's EL2 exactly? Probably execution level 2.
- Avery3R 3y agoException Level 2 [1] They're analogous to "protection rings" on x86. Generally, EL0 is usermode, EL1 is kernel mode, EL2 is hypervisor, and EL3 is the "secure monitor"/firmware code, closest analogy I think would be SMM on x86. On top of all of that there's also trustzone with its own EL0 and EL1. 1: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102412/0103/Privilege-and-Exception-levels/Exception-levels https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102412/0103/Privileg...