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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Is there any standard kernel config define for "this platform can't do
> unaligned accesses"?
> 

Not that I know of, but there should be.

To be somewhat more complexicated, some platforms (e.g. MIPS) can do 
unaligned references quite cheaply, but they need different opcodes to 
do so.

	-hpa