Beagleboard B4 and Linux Kernel 3.8.x

Hi,

I grabbed my old BeagleBoard B4 (+ TinCantools Add-on for Ethernet
Connectivity).
It's an ancient board but I wanted to give it a shot and install an
actual (Gentoo-) Linux on it.

For the kernel compilation I followed:

http://beagleboard.org/linux

with slight corrections for the beagleBoard (omap3 beagle config and dts
files).
After installing to a MiniSD card (yes, that's ancient as well :slight_smile: )
u-boot gives me this:

reading uImage
3557767 bytes read in 3006 ms (1.1 MiB/s)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80300000 ...
   Image Name: Linux-3.8.13+
   Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size: 3557703 Bytes = 3.4 MiB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point: 80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

Before starting to dig into Kernel startup code/Kernel configuration: do
dts files already come into play in this early stage ?

Thanks,
Thomas