Comment # 6 on bug 989462 from James Fehlig

(In reply to Alan Ott from comment #5)
> If you look at Linaro's UEFI for QEMU page[1], it says to use -bios on ARM,
> at least for the images they generate and post on their site.

Have you tried the images SUSE makes available? qemu-uefi-aarch64-*.noarch.rpm
contains the firmwares for ARM. The repo for 42.1 can be found at

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/