[U-Boot] Issue with running commands

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Sughosh

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Christian,
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Christian Riesch <
> christian.riesch at omicron.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sughosh,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > hi,
>> > While testing on hawkboard with the latest commit, i hit an issue of
>> > commands not being accepted.
>> >
>> > hawkboard > rese
>> > Unknown command '�����' - try 'help'
>> > hawkboard >
>> >
>> > Running git bisect showed that this is caused due to commit 054ea170f271:
>> > cmd_mem: cmp: unify size code paths. Has anyone seen this issue -- i
>> don't
>> > think this is board/arch specific.
>>
>> I tried to reproduce this on the calimain board (AM1808 SoC), but
>> without success. The reset command works fine with current mainline
>> u-boot.
>>
>
> Thanks for testing this. This looks to be some kind of an alignment issue
> on my board, which is getting introduced due to the commit i mentioned. The
> said commit is not directly responsible for the problem, but it introduces
> some kind of misalignment. I am looking into this -- at such times i so
> dearly wish i had a jtag debugger :)

I may be totally off track, but I saw a patch recently 'arm: armv7:
add compile option -mno-unaligned-access if available' - I wonder if
its related

Regards,

Graeme