> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:29 PM
> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Compiling for ARMv7-a
>
> Dear "Premi, Sanjeev",
>
> In message
> <[email protected]>
> 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.
[sp] No, it was not for measuring u-boot but for a small application
that I wanted to compare for power consumption. It is probably
easier to play with caches, MMU, etc. in the u-boot than in
Linux kernel.
Application is merely a calculate-wait-calculate kind of loop.
~sanjeev
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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