[U-Boot] Issue with running commands

[Prabhakar Lad]

Hi Sughosh,

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Graeme,
> On Wed Jul 04, 2012 at 09:28:07AM +1000, Graeme Russ wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> >> 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.
>> >>

Tested on Logic Pd's OMAPL138, and found no issues as you mentioned.

Thx,
--Prabhakar Lad

>> >> 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
>
>   The SoC on my board uses a armv5 based core(arm926ejs), so this
>   patch won't apply for my board.
>
> -sughosh
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