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List:       yaffs
Subject:    Re: [Yaffs] Wide tnode support added.... concerns for PowerPC etc?
From:       Jon Masters <jonmasters () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-12-12 1:02:16
Message-ID: 35fb2e590512111702v158b0c1es19843c57a3511cd6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 12/10/05, Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> This code makes the assumption that it is OK to have a pointer on any
> arbitrary 32-bit boundary. This should be OK for ARM, but is it OK for al=
l
> CPUs?

Should be. Anyone with weird alignment might (in theory) take a data
exception and fix it up with a few additional loads in the kernel. The
wide patch is fine on ppc, it's what I've done all of my recent YAFFS
work on.

Jon.


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