Re: zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx)

[Shaddy Baddah <shaddy_baddah@hotmail.com>]

Hi Jean,

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	Personally, I was under the impression that in userspace libc
> trap unaligned access and make them work. I mean, this code was tested
> on other 64/32 bit platforms (PPC, AMD-64, PS3) and was working there,
> so this seems to be specific to your platform.

Sure. The platform is a Sun Ultra 10, running Debian Lenny:

Linux trad 2.6.22 #2 Fri Nov 30 13:47:43 EST 2007 sparc64 GNU/Linux

(just noticed that the clock is wrong. I'll sort that out later).

> 	In any case, I've modified my code to use a memcpy() instead
> of direct memory access. I'm not 100% sure it will fix it because many
> time memcpy() is optimised away to a direct memory access.
> 
> 	So, you'll find attached a new version of Wireless Tools. Just
> tell me if it work. You can remove the debugging output by commenting
> out the "#define DEBUG" lines (grep for it).

Yes, that has fixed it. Thank you very much.

Regards,
Shaddy