On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 17:07 -0400, Ivan Stalev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cross-compiled the latest (3.16) linaro kernel from source using the
> linaro aarch64 toolchain (gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2014.04_linux).
> I am also using the linaro armv8 disk image
> (linaro-image-minimal-genericarmv8-20140127-635).
>
> At first I used defconfig to compile the kernel.

That _may_ be part of the problem, we generally don't use the defconfig
for building arm64 kernels, we use the config produced by running
something like...

  ARCH=arm64 scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh \
    linaro/configs/linaro-base.conf \
    linaro/configs/linaro-base64.conf \
    linaro/configs/distribution.conf \
    linaro/configs/big-LITTLE-MP.conf \
    linaro/configs/vexpress64.conf

This is assuming you're using ARM's Juno board or FVPs (a.k.a. RTSM
a.k.a. Fast Models).

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