diff --git a/poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-xscale.inc b/poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-xscale.inc
index 0d07333..19d5e13 100644
--- a/poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-xscale.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/conf/machine/include/tune-xscale.inc
@@ -4,13 +4,16 @@
 
 TUNEVALID[xscale] = "Enable PXA255/PXA26x Xscale specific processor optimizations"
 TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'xscale', ' -mcpu=xscale', '', d)}"
+MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'xscale', 'armv5:', '' ,d)}"
 
 AVAILTUNES += "xscale"
 ARMPKGARCH_tune-xscale = "xscale"
-TUNE_FEATURES_tune-xscale = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv5te} xscale"
+# mcpu is used so don't use armv5te as we don't want march
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-xscale = "arm thumb dsp xscale"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-xscale = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv5te} xscale xscalet xscalee xscalete"
 
 AVAILTUNES += "xscale-be"
 ARMPKGARCH_tune-xscale-be = "xscale"
-TUNE_FEATURES_tune-xscale-be = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-armv5teb} xscale bigendian"
+# mcpu is used so don't use armv5te as we don't want march
+TUNE_FEATURES_tune-xscale-be = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-xscale} bigendian"
 PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-xscale-be = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-armv5teb} xscaleb xscaletb xscaleeb xscaleteb"