[U-Boot] Booting armv8 kernel on uboot

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Thu May 22 18:36:20 CEST 2014


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:26:17PM +0800, fenghua at phytium.com.cn wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

Which version of the model are you using and which kernel tree?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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