Re: AM3517 fails to boot 3.16-rc5 device tree kernel

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Michael Welling <mwelling@emacinc.com> [140718 07:42]:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm maybe double check your're booting device tree based kernel
> > instead of legacy machine ID based kernel? The legacy booting should
> > still work just fine and no changes has been made to it, but it will
> > get removed shortly.
>
> I downloaded the version from the test results and it did boot.

OK that's good to hear.

> These are combining the uImage and dtb. How do you accomplish this?

You need to make sure you have the appended DTB support enabled like
we do in omap2plus_defconfig:

CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB=y
CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT_CMDLINE_FROM_BOOTLOADER=y

Then just cat zImage board.dtb > /tmp/zImage-dtba and run
mkimage to convert it to a uImage:

$ mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 \
	-n "Linux" -d /tmp/zImage-dtba /tmp/uImage

Regards,

Tony