diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/linux-kernel-image-header-vars.h b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/linux-kernel-image-header-vars.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e72093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/linux-kernel-image-header-vars.h
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2017 NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com>
+ *
+ * Derived from Linux kernel v4.14 files:
+ *
+ * arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h:
+ * Based on arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h, arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+ * Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Russell King
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ *
+ * arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:
+ * Based on arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+ * Copyright (C) 1994-2002 Russell King
+ * Copyright (C) 2003-2012 ARM Ltd.
+ * Authors:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
+ *		Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
+ *
+ * arch/arm64/kernel/image.h:
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 ARM Ltd.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:     GPL-2.0
+ */
+
+/*
+ * There aren't any ELF relocations we can use to endian-swap values known only
+ * at link time (e.g. the subtraction of two symbol addresses), so we must get
+ * the linker to endian-swap certain values before emitting them.
+ *
+ * Note that, in order for this to work when building the ELF64 PIE executable
+ * (for KASLR), these values should not be referenced via R_AARCH64_ABS64
+ * relocations, since these are fixed up at runtime rather than at build time
+ * when PIE is in effect. So we need to split them up in 32-bit high and low
+ * words.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+#define DATA_LE32(data)				\
+	((((data) & 0x000000ff) << 24) |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x0000ff00) << 8)  |	\
+	 (((data) & 0x00ff0000) >> 8)  |	\
+	 (((data) & 0xff000000) >> 24))
+#else
+#define DATA_LE32(data) ((data) & 0xffffffff)
+#endif
+
+#define DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(sym, data)				\
+	sym##_lo32 = DATA_LE32((data) & 0xffffffff);		\
+	sym##_hi32 = DATA_LE32((data) >> 32)
+
+#define __MAX(a, b)		(((a) > (b)) ? (a) : (b))
+#define __CODE_DATA_SIZE	(__bss_start - _start)
+#define __BSS_SIZE		(__bss_end - __bss_start)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_BSS_OFFSET
+#define __MAX_EXTRA_RAM_USAGE	__MAX(__BSS_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_BSS_OFFSET)
+#else
+#define __MAX_EXTRA_RAM_USAGE	__BSS_SIZE
+#endif
+#define __MEM_USAGE		(__CODE_DATA_SIZE + __MAX_EXTRA_RAM_USAGE)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE		1
+#else
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE		0
+#endif
+
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE	1 /* 4K hard-coded */
+
+#define __HEAD_FLAG_PHYS_BASE	1
+
+#define __HEAD_FLAGS		((__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) |	\
+				 (__HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE << 1) |	\
+				 (__HEAD_FLAG_PHYS_BASE << 3))
+
+#define TEXT_OFFSET (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE - \
+			CONFIG_LNX_KRNL_IMG_TEXT_OFFSET_BASE)
+
+/*
+ * These will output as part of the Image header, which should be little-endian
+ * regardless of the endianness of the kernel. While constant values could be
+ * endian swapped in head.S, all are done here for consistency.
+ */
+#define HEAD_SYMBOLS						\
+	DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_size_le, __MEM_USAGE);	\
+	DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_offset_le, TEXT_OFFSET);	\
+	DEFINE_IMAGE_LE64(_kernel_flags_le, __HEAD_FLAGS);
+
+	HEAD_SYMBOLS
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S
index f385ed4..7a98a1c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
 
 .globl	_start
 _start:
-#ifdef CONFIG_ENABLE_ARM_SOC_BOOT0_HOOK
+#if defined(LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_HEADER)
+#include <asm/boot0-linux-kernel-header.h>
+#elif defined(CONFIG_ENABLE_ARM_SOC_BOOT0_HOOK)
 /*
  * Various SoCs need something special and SoC-specific up front in
  * order to boot, allow them to set that in their boot0.h file and then
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds
index 22195b8..7b76e0f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds
@@ -159,4 +159,8 @@
 	/DISCARD/ : { *(.plt*) }
 	/DISCARD/ : { *(.interp*) }
 	/DISCARD/ : { *(.gnu*) }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_HEADER
+#include "linux-kernel-image-header-vars.h"
+#endif
 }