[meta-ti] Is it intended to build TI bootloaders with march=armv5?

[Andreas Müller]

On Friday, December 16, 2011 10:21:49 AM Andreas Müller wrote:
> Hi
> 
> as some of you might know, I am desperately working on u-boot SPL support
> for gumstix overo and having very strange effects: as soon as a stacic
> integer variable is accessed, the bootloader hangs [1].
> 
> In the compile logs I found ( checked also for beagleboard ) that
> 
> march=armv5
> 
> is used ( x-load is build with march=armv7-a ). Is this intended? Could
> this explain my trouble?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> [1] http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-December/113491.html
> 
To avoid further efforts on this path:

* armv5 is intended by u-boot
* for test I modified the config.mk files to set up armv7-a and tested: Same mess 
when calling i2c_init or i2c_set_bus_num.

Andreas