[U-Boot] [PATCH] smsc95xx: align buffers to cache line size
Marek Vasut
marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 23:31:28 CEST 2012
Dear Ilya Yanok,
> Dear Marek,
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > btw. this will fail with cache line < 32 .
>
> Hm.. I have to admit I'm not very much into USB specs and I don't have any
> non-ARMv7 system now to do some testing...
> But it used to work without any alignment, right? (with disabled dcache, of
> course)
> That makes me think that data buffers don't need any alignment (from USB
> pov, not cache) and 32-byte alignment is required for internal structs
> only.
See ehci-r10.pdf ... chapter 3.5 ... the buffer pointer has to be aligned too it
seems.
> Regards, Ilya.
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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