I am still working the u-boot project. After I got the ARM realview ice debugger, my life is easier, but still tough. I traced the assembly code of Linux kernel and compare the execution of the same kernel booted by both boot2 and u-boot. As the boot2 can successfully boot the kernel image, I just need to make sure u-boot can get to the same state that u-boot created for the kernel.
I figured out the memory starting address configuration is not set to proper value in u-boot today, but checking the kernel parameters. However, after I modified the u-boot code, I still can't get through the same point in kernel image. Anyway, there is a problem to be fixed. I'd keep working on that tomorrow, by checking the memory set by boot2/uboot, before the kernel booted.
The Linux kernel needs some settings in ATAG. Those settings will be read by kernel during the boot stage. There are several ATAG parameters, like the memory starting address, size, command line, arch id, etc.
