Dear eric van tassell,

please always keep the mailing list on Cc.

Also, please do not top post / full quote, this is considered really bad manners. See http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

In message AANLkTikEz2UR-VbqeFgZ-ZuTCAu+nOLCbG92DERdNSdp@mail.gmail.com you wrote:

it's an imx35 based custom board. Although I've done a lot of kernel work I'm new to u-boot and was more looking for general approaches than specific fixes(although that would be nice)

Current ARM support does not enable caches. You might want to look into Heiko Schocher's recent patches...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk