[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] revised word alignment fixes for word aligned NS16550 UART

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <OFF26F609C.4348B979-ONC1256FB7.004C4EC9-C1256FB7.0058F5C8 at philips.com> you wrote:
> 
> CHANGELOG:
> * Patch by Jean-Paul Saman, 23 Feb 2005
> 
> - include/ns16550.h 
> Fixes alignement bug with UART that only supports word aligned access:
> removed "__attribute__ ((packed));" for "(CFG_NS16550_REG_SIZE == 4)" 
> GCC generates bytes access when it encounters the packed attribute 
> regardless if the struct is already word aligned for a platform. 
> Peripherals that can only handle word aligned access won't work properly 
> when accessed with byte access. The struct NS16550 is already word aligned 
> for REG_SIZE = 4, so there is no need to packed the struct in that case.

Applied. Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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