[U-Boot] [U-boot] Uboot's plan for ARMv8

[bhupesh.sharma at freescale.com]

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> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]
> On Behalf Of TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:33 AM
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: [U-Boot] [U-boot] Uboot's plan for ARMv8
> 
> Hi, experts:
> 
> Does U-boot have any plan to support ARMv8 SOC?
> 
> Nvidia has decleared 64bit SOC plan.
> 
> So, i think bootloader for ARMv8 SOC is urgent now.
> 
> 
> Although ARM Ltd recommended UEFI firmware as ARMv8's bootloader.
> 
> But not a requirement.
> 
> On Consumer Electronics market, Uboot has huge influence.
> 
> So, Does U-boot have any plan to support ARMv8 SOC?
> 

I am sure you must have seen patches from David Feng (added in cc) for u-boot support
for ARMv8 foundation model (see reference [1]).

It compiles fine for me with the Linaro 'aarch64-linux-gcc' toolchain and is able to boot
ARMv8 foundation model. With my SMSC ethernet related changes (already part of David's v16 patchset),
I am able to TFTP standard vanilla Linux images onto the foundation model (along with a simple
busybox RFS) and boot Linux on the same and test some simple applications like tftp on linux.

This base code can be easily used to add support for a 'real' ARMv8 based SoC.

Hope this helps.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg127876.html

Regards,
Bhupesh