[U-Boot] Compiling for ARMv7-a

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Apr 6 09:59:12 CEST 2009


Dear "Premi, Sanjeev",

In message <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB59301CC6FBE61 at dbde02.ent.ti.com> you wrote:
>
> > maybe you could explain us why you need it?
> 
> [sp] Only as an exercise to see if compiling for ARM v7 provides any
>      better performance - speed and/or power-consumption.

...both of which are most probably irrelevant in a boot loader,
thatunder normal operating conditions has a total execution time of
just a few hundred milliseconds per power-cycle.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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