diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index c66e0808c2b1..73c320ea172c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1801,6 +1801,18 @@ config ARM_APPENDED_DTB
 	  location into r2 of a bootloader provided DTB is always preferable
 	  to this option.
 
+config ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
+	bool "Supplement the appended DTB with traditional ATAG information"
+	depends on ARM_APPENDED_DTB
+	help
+	  Some old bootloaders can't be updated to a DTB capable one, yet
+	  they provide ATAGs with memory configuration, the ramdisk address,
+	  the kernel cmdline string, etc.  Such information is dynamically
+	  provided by the bootloader and can't always be stored in a static
+	  DTB.  To allow a device tree enabled kernel to be used with such
+	  bootloaders, this option allows zImage to extract the information
+	  from the ATAG list and store it at run time into the appended DTB.
+
 config CMDLINE
 	string "Default kernel command string"
 	default ""
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
index c6028967d336..e0936a148516 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,12 @@ piggy.lzo
 piggy.lzma
 vmlinux
 vmlinux.lds
+
+# borrowed libfdt files
+fdt.c
+fdt.h
+fdt_ro.c
+fdt_rw.c
+fdt_wip.c
+libfdt.h
+libfdt_internal.h
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index c20ddc69d950..55f86349d547 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -93,19 +93,36 @@ suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP) = gzip
 suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO)  = lzo
 suffix_$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA) = lzma
 
+# Borrowed libfdt files for the ATAG compatibility mode
+
+libfdt		:= fdt_rw.c fdt_ro.c fdt_wip.c fdt.c
+libfdt_hdrs	:= fdt.h libfdt.h libfdt_internal.h
+
+libfdt_objs	:= $(addsuffix .o, $(basename $(libfdt)))
+
+$(addprefix $(obj)/,$(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs)): $(obj)/%: $(srctree)/scripts/dtc/libfdt/%
+	$(call cmd,shipped)
+
+$(addprefix $(obj)/,$(libfdt_objs) atags_to_fdt.o): \
+	$(addprefix $(obj)/,$(libfdt_hdrs))
+
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT),y)
+OBJS	+= $(libfdt_objs) atags_to_fdt.o
+endif
+
 targets       := vmlinux vmlinux.lds \
 		 piggy.$(suffix_y) piggy.$(suffix_y).o \
 		 font.o font.c head.o misc.o $(OBJS)
 
 # Make sure files are removed during clean
-extra-y       += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma lib1funcs.S
+extra-y       += piggy.gzip piggy.lzo piggy.lzma lib1funcs.S $(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs)
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER),y)
 ORIG_CFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS = $(subst -pg, , $(ORIG_CFLAGS))
 endif
 
-ccflags-y := -fpic -fno-builtin
+ccflags-y := -fpic -fno-builtin -I$(obj)
 asflags-y := -Wa,-march=all
 
 # Supply kernel BSS size to the decompressor via a linker symbol.
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ce11c481178
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+#include <asm/setup.h>
+#include <libfdt.h>
+
+static int node_offset(void *fdt, const char *node_path)
+{
+	int offset = fdt_path_offset(fdt, node_path);
+	if (offset == -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND)
+		offset = fdt_add_subnode(fdt, 0, node_path);
+	return offset;
+}
+
+static int setprop(void *fdt, const char *node_path, const char *property,
+		   uint32_t *val_array, int size)
+{
+	int offset = node_offset(fdt, node_path);
+	if (offset < 0)
+		return offset;
+	return fdt_setprop(fdt, offset, property, val_array, size);
+}
+
+static int setprop_string(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
+			  const char *property, const char *string)
+{
+	int offset = node_offset(fdt, node_path);
+	if (offset < 0)
+		return offset;
+	return fdt_setprop_string(fdt, offset, property, string);
+}
+
+static int setprop_cell(void *fdt, const char *node_path,
+			const char *property, uint32_t val)
+{
+	int offset = node_offset(fdt, node_path);
+	if (offset < 0)
+		return offset;
+	return fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, offset, property, val);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Convert and fold provided ATAGs into the provided FDT.
+ *
+ * REturn values:
+ *    = 0 -> pretend success
+ *    = 1 -> bad ATAG (may retry with another possible ATAG pointer)
+ *    < 0 -> error from libfdt
+ */
+int atags_to_fdt(void *atag_list, void *fdt, int total_space)
+{
+	struct tag *atag = atag_list;
+	uint32_t mem_reg_property[2 * NR_BANKS];
+	int memcount = 0;
+	int ret;
+
+	/* make sure we've got an aligned pointer */
+	if ((u32)atag_list & 0x3)
+		return 1;
+
+	/* if we get a DTB here we're done already */
+	if (*(u32 *)atag_list == fdt32_to_cpu(FDT_MAGIC))
+	       return 0;
+
+	/* validate the ATAG */
+	if (atag->hdr.tag != ATAG_CORE ||
+	    (atag->hdr.size != tag_size(tag_core) &&
+	     atag->hdr.size != 2))
+		return 1;
+
+	/* let's give it all the room it could need */
+	ret = fdt_open_into(fdt, fdt, total_space);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+
+	for_each_tag(atag, atag_list) {
+		if (atag->hdr.tag == ATAG_CMDLINE) {
+			setprop_string(fdt, "/chosen", "bootargs",
+					atag->u.cmdline.cmdline);
+		} else if (atag->hdr.tag == ATAG_MEM) {
+			if (memcount >= sizeof(mem_reg_property)/4)
+				continue;
+			mem_reg_property[memcount++] = cpu_to_fdt32(atag->u.mem.start);
+			mem_reg_property[memcount++] = cpu_to_fdt32(atag->u.mem.size);
+		} else if (atag->hdr.tag == ATAG_INITRD2) {
+			uint32_t initrd_start, initrd_size;
+			initrd_start = atag->u.initrd.start;
+			initrd_size = atag->u.initrd.size;
+			setprop_cell(fdt, "/chosen", "linux,initrd-start",
+					initrd_start);
+			setprop_cell(fdt, "/chosen", "linux,initrd-end",
+					initrd_start + initrd_size);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (memcount)
+		setprop(fdt, "/memory", "reg", mem_reg_property, 4*memcount);
+
+	return fdt_pack(fdt);
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index ba5c552f8c69..9f5ac11ccd8e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -246,6 +246,38 @@ restart:	adr	r0, LC0
 		cmp	lr, r1
 		bne	dtb_check_done		@ not found
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
+		/*
+		 * OK... Let's do some funky business here.
+		 * If we do have a DTB appended to zImage, and we do have
+		 * an ATAG list around, we want the later to be translated
+		 * and folded into the former here.  To be on the safe side,
+		 * let's temporarily move  the stack away into the malloc
+		 * area.  No GOT fixup has occurred yet, but none of the
+		 * code we're about to call uses any global variable.
+		*/
+		add	sp, sp, #0x10000
+		stmfd	sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
+		mov	r0, r8
+		mov	r1, r6
+		sub	r2, sp, r6
+		bl	atags_to_fdt
+
+		/*
+		 * If returned value is 1, there is no ATAG at the location
+		 * pointed by r8.  Try the typical 0x100 offset from start
+		 * of RAM and hope for the best.
+		 */
+		cmp	r0, #1
+		sub	r0, r4, #(TEXT_OFFSET - 0x100)
+		mov	r1, r6
+		sub	r2, sp, r6
+		blne	atags_to_fdt
+
+		ldmfd	sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
+		sub	sp, sp, #0x10000
+#endif
+
 		mov	r8, r6			@ use the appended device tree
 
 		/*
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt_env.h b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt_env.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1f4e71876b00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt_env.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#ifndef _ARM_LIBFDT_ENV_H
+#define _ARM_LIBFDT_ENV_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <asm/byteorder.h>
+
+#define fdt16_to_cpu(x)		be16_to_cpu(x)
+#define cpu_to_fdt16(x)		cpu_to_be16(x)
+#define fdt32_to_cpu(x)		be32_to_cpu(x)
+#define cpu_to_fdt32(x)		cpu_to_be32(x)
+#define fdt64_to_cpu(x)		be64_to_cpu(x)
+#define cpu_to_fdt64(x)		cpu_to_be64(x)
+
+#endif