initial import of armv8-hello

README.md

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+Hello World for bare metal ARM using QEMU
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+- Install [Linaro toolchain](http://www.linaro.org/downloads/) for Aarch64 little-endian
+```
+sudo apt-get install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
+```
+- Install recent QEMU with Aarch64 target
+```
+sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm
+```
+
+Building and Verification
+-------------------------
+* Changes the current working directory to the specified one and then
+```
+make
+make qemu
+```
+
+Licensing
+---------
+`mini-arm-os` is freely redistributable under the two-clause BSD License.
+Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found
+in the `LICENSE` file.