Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (364 mails)

[Ales Fiala <ales.fiala@xxxxxx>]

Sure.  That is in fact my situation  So the macros that I use to wrap 
these accesses both byte swap and fetch data byte at a time.

I was trying to save the original writer some effort since his Alpha 
processor does support unaligned accesses.

Ales Fiala


Miles Bader wrote:
> bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>   
> > Most, if not all, of these unaligned accesses are in the AtomBIOS. This is just
> > initialization code that is not performance critical. So if you can put up with
> > the polluted kernel logs, I don't think it is much of a problem.
> >     
>
> What about processors that don't support unaligned accesses?
> If it's not performance critical then it should be fine to just
> do byte-by-byte r/w...
>
> -Miles
>
>   
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