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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Jun 13 14:23:18 CEST 2012


Hi Mike,

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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 ?
>

OK I will do that.


> -mike
>

Regards,
Simon


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