[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: See to it that sent data is aligned to the ethernet controllers wishes

[Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:55:46 -0700
Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> wrote:

> My preference is for the drivers to handle alignment.

OK, I'm fine with that. I'd like to withdraw this patch then.

> I like Dave's  idea of creating a buffer (or multiple buffers) in initialization(), 
> then memcpy'ing to to it in the send() routine.  You could make it smart 
> to only memcpy if the frame is not aligned as needed.

It already only memcpys unaligned buffers, but I'll go with Daves
suggestion and allocate it at startup instead.

> Your original patch created a buffer of size 9000, which I commented was 
> probably bigger than necessary.  I didn't see a response to that (which 
> doesn't mean you didn't send one, but I get a lot of e-mail :)

I was off for vacation [*], so I only sent it this week. I'll rework this
patch a bit to address a small bug I found.

Thanks for the comments!
// Simon
[*] By now the U-boot list is probably tired of hearing about my
    vacation, but I can assure you that I had a good time!