[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] tegra: nand: Add Tegra NAND driver

[Stephen Warren]

On 07/05/2012 07:28 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 02:46 AM, Jim Lin wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood at freescale.com] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:17 AM
>>> To: Simon Glass
>>> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List; Tom Warren; Stephen Warren; Jim Lin; Stephen Warren
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] tegra: nand: Add Tegra NAND driver
>>>
>>> On 04/17/2012 01:50 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>> +static void write_buf(struct mtd_info *mtd, const uint8_t *buf, int len)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	int i, j, l;
>>>> +	struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv;
>>>> +	struct nand_drv *info;
>>>> +
>>>> +	info = (struct nand_drv *)chip->priv;
>>>> +
>>>> +	for (i = 0; i < len / 4; i++) {
>>>> +		l = ((int *)buf)[i];
>>>
>>> If you're assuming the buffer is 32-bit aligned, comment it.  Ideally
>>> these assumptions should be stated in the interface itself...
>> This doesn't mean that buf needs to be 32-bit aligned.
>> It only says each write is 32-bit.
> 
> OK, didn't realize modern ARM could deal with unaligned accesses.

I'd like to see some more research here; I know that recent printk
changes in the ARM kernel caused unaligned accesses which in turn caused
significant problems (including on Tegra). This might only have been for
64-bit accesses, so perhaps 32-bit accesses don't have an issue, but if
you could confirm this Jim, that'd be great.