From: Mitch Bradley <wmb-D5eQfiDGL7eakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
To: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Device Tree Mailing List
<devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Alignment of mixed-data type items in properties
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:09:49 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD8D79D.6080708@firmworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101109012845.GC30378@yookeroo>
The reason for not aligning in Open Firmware
property values because I got tired of having
to fix structures that needed different padding
when moving to different systems. I just decided
to dispense with alignment, constructing property
values with serialization functions and reading
them with deserialization functions.
People often get away with structure-based property
access techniques, but the "official model" is based
on a byte stream of concatenated elements with no
internal alignment.
Mitch Bradley
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 5:09 UTC|newest]
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2010-11-09 1:07 Alignment of mixed-data type items in properties David VomLehn
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2010-11-09 1:28 ` David Gibson
2010-11-09 5:09 ` Mitch Bradley [this message]
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