Booting a 4.10 mainline kernel

VIM1 Linux Kernel & U-Boot
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You need to modify the the u-boot environment in order to boot a mainline kernel.

  • The console device is now ttyAML0 instead of ttyS0
  • The dtb is called meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dtb instead of kvim.dtb
  • The kernel Image is called uImage an has to be started with bootm 0x1000000 0x2000000 0xc00000

I’m using the latest u-boot now, but the mainline kernel should boot with the previous version as well.

You may take a look here, I’ve started to write my own set of u-boot macros which makes it easier to manage different configurations at a time and choose a distinct one for booting.

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