http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20593
--- Comment #4 from Michael Cree
--- Comment #2 from Ales Fiala
2009-03-11 12:41:35 PST --- 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.
I am aware of one distribution that considers unaligned traps bugs that, ideally, should be fixed before release. For me the misaligned accesses raise the question: How are data aligned in the AtomBIOS? Are 16-bit data always aligned on 16-bit boundaries, 32-bit data on 32-bit boundaries, etc.? If so, then the misaligned accesses represent bad accesses to the AtomBIOS that should be investigated. If not, then the the routines should be rewritten to access the data on correctly aligned boundaries and reorganise the bits between two accesses to give the required datum. This should be done for at least those architectures that do not support misaligned accesses. (On the Alpha I am lucky these can be simulated by kernel traps.) Michael. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. _______________________________________________ xorg-team mailing list xorg-team@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org