[U-Boot] [PATCH] crc32: Correct endianness of crc32 result

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:39:09 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> > So how about changing the element type of output in the definition of
> > hash_func_ws, adapting the corresponding implementations sha1_csum_wd,
> > sha256_csum_wd and crc32_wd_buf, and adapting the output argument
> > of the sole call to hash_func_ws, that is, the local "u8
> > output[HASH_MAX_DIGEST_SIZE];" in hash.c? Then we'be done with
> > alignment.
> 
> OK, but that would be a totally different approach (which appears to
> be a good one, here).

Indeed; I would suggest splitting this change in two independent ones:

- fix the endianness issue: change the endianness of crc through the
  use of htonl() but leave the existing memcpy() in place as it is,
  even though it is not speed-optimized. That's what Simon's patch
  does if the HOSTCC part is ignored;

- fix the unalignment issue by changing parameter 'output' of function
  type 'hash_func_ws' from u8* to u32* and adjusting the rest of the
  code accordingly -- which would lead to replacing the crc32 final
  memcpy() with a single indirect assignment.

These two changes could be submitted either separately, or as a series.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.