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From: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
To: "Liu Hongming (Alan)" <alanliu@trident.com.cn>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores!
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:27:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310131927.07171.thomas@horsten.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15F9E1AE3207D6119CEA00D0B7DD5F6801AC0B85@TMTMS>

On Monday 13 October 2003 02:44, Liu Hongming (Alan) wrote:

> I am porting linux for a cpu that doesnt support unaligned loads/stores
> instructions.
>
> when using memcpy in arch/mips/memcpy.S,it will not work on these
> instructions.
>
> Any one could help me to deal with this? Have you ever ported linux for
> this kind cpu?
>
> And anyone could tell me which cpu doesnt support these instructions
> either,and has
>
> been ported for linux?

Almost all MIPS CPU's are like this, and don't support unaligned accesses.

The memcpy in arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S already handles this (by copying the end 
and beginning using byte-accesses if not aligned).

Best regards,

Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-13 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-13  1:44 need help on unaligned loads,stores! Liu Hongming (Alan)
2003-10-13 18:27 ` Thomas Horsten [this message]
2003-10-13 19:34   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-13 20:49     ` Ralf Baechle
2003-10-13 21:15       ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 21:37         ` Ralf Baechle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-14  1:18 Liu Hongming (Alan)

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