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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: enable unaligned access on ARMv7
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:34:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120625223445.257fef5c@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM=4YESX-U5PgTF-_wr5MrrT8griUXyMyMQVR5jkLOr=tU+7tQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Aneesh,

> >> BTW, I agree that enabling un-aligned access is not a bad idea.
> >
> > Just being "not a bad idea" is not enough for me to accept this. It
> > will have to be the sole sound solution to a problem, and at this
> > point, I do not think it is as far as USB structure mis-alignement
> > issues are concerned.
> 
> My point is that enabling un-aligned accesses in itsown merit
> is not a bad idea, not as a solution to this problem. I have seen
> it being enabled in HLOS environment. TI's Symbian port for
> instance had it enabled for OMAP3. I don't
> know why Linux too shoudln't take advantage of such hw
> features. Perhaps you don't want to take it at this point of time to
> force the real solution to the USB problem, which is reasonable.

What is the (non-contrived) problem to which allowing mis-aligned
accesses would be a solution?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-25 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-05 17:47 [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: enable unaligned access on ARMv7 Lucas Stach
2012-06-05 18:42 ` Stephen Warren
2012-06-05 19:06   ` Lucas Stach
2012-06-22  9:15     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-06-22  9:36       ` Lucas Stach
2012-06-22 11:16         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-06-22 11:47           ` Lucas Stach
2012-06-22 22:11             ` Aneesh V
2012-06-22 22:13               ` Aneesh V
2012-06-23  9:01                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-06-23 17:43                   ` V, Aneesh
2012-06-25 20:34                     ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2012-06-25 21:49                       ` Aneesh V
2012-06-25 22:02                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-06-23 19:50                   ` Måns Rullgård
2012-06-24  6:30                   ` Lucas Stach
     [not found]                     ` <20120625221741.3a32790e@lilith>
2012-06-25 21:34                       ` Lucas Stach
2012-06-26 20:56       ` Rob Herring
2012-06-27 10:14         ` Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
2012-07-02  9:42           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: armv7: add compile option -mno-unaligned-access if available Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
2012-07-02  9:53             ` Måns Rullgård
2012-07-02 15:16               ` Lucas Stach
2012-07-02 16:14                 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-07-03  7:10                   ` Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
2012-07-05  7:57                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-18 21:37                     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-19  4:31                     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-19  4:29                   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-19  6:28                     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-19 14:27                       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-20  7:12                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-12 15:12             ` Gary Thomas

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