[U-Boot] Booting armv8 kernel on uboot

[fenghua at phytium.com.cn]

> Hi ,
> I have added mmc driver into the vexpress64 board file for uboot and tested
> it on FVP base model. I tried booting a kernel on that but it is aborting
> with the following message:
> Final value for argc=3
>   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
>   kernel loaded at 0x00080000, end = 0x00827024
> using: FDT
>   reserving fdt memory region: addr=80000000 size=10000
> ## initrd_high = 0xffffffffffffffff, copy_to_ram = 1
>   ramdisk load start = 0x00000000, ramdisk load end = 0x00000000
> ## device tree at 0000000090008000 ... 000000009000a850 (len=22609 [0x5851])
>   Loading Device Tree to 000000009fffa000, end 000000009ffff850 ... OK
> Initial value for argc=3
> Final value for argc=3
> ## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80000)...
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x02000000
> ELR:     80000
> LR:      fff90fc8
> x0 : 000000009fffa000 x1 : 000000001c090000
> x2 : 000000001c090000 x3 : 0000000000000020
> x4 : 00000000fff6b834 x5 : 0000000000000000
> x6 : 00000000fff6bb40 x7 : 00000000ffffffd0
> x8 : 000000000000000f x9 : 000000007ff8e000
> x10: 00000000fffb7188 x11: 0000000000000000
> x12: 0000000000006000 x13: 0000000000000004
> x14: 0000000000000003 x15: 00000000fffc7c20
> x16: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000
> x18: 00000000fff6beb8 x19: 0000000000080000
> x20: 00000000fffc7a70 x21: 0000000000000000
> x22: 0000000000000000 x23: 00000000fff6d8d8
> x24: 0000000000000000 x25: 00000000fffc2630
> x26: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000080008000
> x28: 0000000000000000 x29: 00000000fff6bb40
> 
> Can anyone please provide the procedure on how to boot the kernel with
> u-boot on armv8 models ?
I always use mkimage converting kernel to uImage and booting it. It works fine.
Wish this help you.

David