[U-Boot] [PATCH 11/17] lcd: Add CONFIG_ALIGN_LCD_TO_SECTION to align lcd for MMU

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sun Jan 15 02:38:49 CET 2012


On Saturday 14 January 2012 19:47:23 Simon Glass wrote:
> We want to make the display section-aligned on ARM so that we can easily
> turn off data caching for this.
> 
> Is this useful for other architectures? We could perhaps generalise it by
> adding the ability to specify the alignment size, but at least for ARM
> it is easier to have it be an architecture feature set by the MMU's
> system.h header.

seems like a generally useful thing, but the exact alignment is a bit hackish.  
so perhaps the CONFIG knob should instead be the size you want to align things 
to ?
-mike
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