Dear Albrecht,

In message <1220375903l.5712l.0l@antares> you wrote:

Thanks a lot for your hint, but unfortunately it doesn't solve my  
problem:
- downloaded 2.6.26.3 from kernel.org;
- called "make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_6xx-  
52xx/lite5200b_defconfig";
- called "make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_6xx- uImage".

Missing step: build the device tree blob.

However, even with "console=ttyPSC0,115200 verbose panic=1" in the  
bootargs, the kernel simply doesn't say /anything/ after decompression:

<snip>
=> bootm
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 01000000 ...
    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.26.3
    Created:      2008-09-02   9:11:12 UTC
    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
    Data Size:    1341904 Bytes =  1.3 MB
    Load Address: 00000000
    Entry Point:  00000000
    Verifying Checksum ... OK
    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
</snip>

The "bootm" command without arguments does just start the Linux kernel
image. In this form, it does NOT pass the device tree to the Linux
kernel. You must use

	=> bootm 01000000 - <dtb_addr>

instead (after downloading the DTB to the <dtb_addr> address).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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