[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] [repost]: arm: kirkwood: See to it that sent data is 8-byte aligned

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de 
> [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Simon Kagstrom
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:44 PM
> To: U-Boot ML
> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] [repost]: arm: kirkwood: See to 
> it that sent data is 8-byte aligned
> 
> U-boot might use non-8-byte-aligned addresses for sending data, which
> the kwgbe_send doesn't accept (bootp does this for me). This patch
> copies the data to be sent to a malloced temporary buffer if it is
> non-aligned.
<snip...>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.h 
> b/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.h
> index 9c893d1..16d5214 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.h
> @@ -499,6 +499,7 @@ struct kwgbe_device {
>  	struct kwgbe_rxdesc *p_rxdesc;
>  	struct kwgbe_rxdesc *p_rxdesc_curr;
>  	u8 *p_rxbuf;
> +	u8 *p_aligned_txbuf;
>  };
>  
>  #endif /* __EGIGA_H__ */
> -- 
> 1.6.0.4
>
Ack,
Technically this patch is okay,
Unless we all agree this to be done in low level drivers :-)

Regards..
Prafulla . .

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