From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tor Krill <tor@excito.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:37:39 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] Unaligned data transfers?
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Hi, 

I have a question regarding (disk) transfers. For example Sata read and
write takes an unspecified address which very well could be an unaligned
byte address.

Many DMA-controllers though require 16 or 32bit alignments for
transfers.

Is it safe to assume that the address is correct or bail out with an
error message if source/destinaton address isn't correctly aligned for
the underlaying HW?

/Tor