[U-Boot-Users] ARM march architecture version for arm926ejs in config.mk

Hi,
i have seen questions on the mailing list about march for arm926ejs being mentioned as -march=armv4.
http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--ARM%3A-Fix-arm-architecture-version-for-ar m926ejs-td5195486.html#a5210157
http://www.nabble.com/-patch-u-boot-git-2-3--better-ARM9-compiler-option s-td14962153.html#a15009686
But according to the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture ) , architecture version for ARM926EJ-S is ARMv5TEJ.
Kindly can someone explain why this is done. Previously few have provided the patch but all have been rejected or not applied.
Sorry if this is a repeated question.
Thanks in advance.
Regards Gururaja

-----Original Message----- From: Gururaja Hebbar K R [mailto:gururajakr@sanyo.co.in] Sent: 02 April 2008 03:05 To: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: wd@denx.de; Peter Pearse Subject: ARM march architecture version for arm926ejs in config.mk
Hi,
i have seen questions on the mailing list about march for arm926ejs being mentioned as -march=armv4.
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But according to the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture ) , architecture version for ARM926EJ-S is ARMv5TEJ.
Correct Please confirm, off list, that you can access http://infocenter.arm.com/ for your future ARM architecture investigations....
Kindly can someone explain why this is done. Previously few have provided the patch but all have been rejected or not applied.
I think the position is that -march=armv4 is compatible with more toolchains and builds code which runs on all later architectures, whilst the correct architecture setting provides minimal benefits (to U-Boot).
However, I'm still working on my compiler options patch, mainly to satisfy the list comments re -msoft-float.
I hope to have it available for the next merge window.
Meanwhile you can get the current snapshot from www.linux-arm.org/git/u-boot-armdev.git/080212_options.
I'd be interested in your comments.
Regards
Peter

On 07:34 Wed 02 Apr , Gururaja Hebbar K R wrote:
Hi,
i have seen questions on the mailing list about march for arm926ejs being mentioned as -march=armv4.
http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--ARM%3A-Fix-arm-architecture-version-for-ar m926ejs-td5195486.html#a5210157
http://www.nabble.com/-patch-u-boot-git-2-3--better-ARM9-compiler-option s-td14962153.html#a15009686
I've reject this patch due to warnings on my toolchains
I've plan to investigate on this soon
Best Regards, J.
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Gururaja Hebbar K R
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Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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Peter Pearse