LLARM (Low Level ARM) is an infrastructure toolchain for the ARM architecture that provides libraries and/or tools for:
- full system, CPU, and core emulation (
llarm-emu) - instruction assembly, disassembly, identification, and validation (
llarm-asm) - fetching ARM CPU information (
llarm-cpu) - and many other sub-projects are planned or currently in development
mkdir build && cd build
make
sudo make installNote
I've written approximately 40k lines of C++ so far and have been working on this project for nearly 2 years. At the moment, the project doesn't have any practical use in real-world scenarios in its current state (especially since it only supports AArch32 for now). That being said, my plan is to eventually support modern AArch64 architectures, but it's a very long way ahead.
My ambition is to expand it into something much bigger than it already is. The reason why I'm sharing this colossal project now is because I wanted to publish the progress I've made so far, and maybe get feedback from people to determine what could be better. But for the moment, this is only the beginning.
My objective is to provide a completely new framework to work with the ARM architecture, with goals to have it become a practical solution for many low-level embedded development requirements out there. Think of it as LLVM but for ARM instead of compilers.