uImage built with pre-built linaro toolchain failed to start

[Michael Hope]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Lv Terry-R65388 <r65388 at freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>        By adding -mno-unaligned-access, kernel can start now.
>
>        I've another question, Does this option have some impact on performance?

Hi Terry.  It should improve things.  Before this patch the compiler
would emit the instructions to do a byte-by-byte load and recombine
these into the final word.  With this patch it does a single load and
lets the hardware sort it out.

-- Michael