[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: fec: Avoid MX28 bus sync issue

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri Sep 13 18:24:52 CEST 2013


Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Dear Robert Hodaszi,
> 
> In message <5232F2E7.4050407 at digi.com> you wrote:
> > Ok. Then what about if I would use the stack, but align the buffer
> > manually.
> 
> Has this been tested?  Does it work?
> 
> > -       uchar buff[FEC_MAX_PKT_SIZE] __aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN);
> > +       /* Align the receive buffer */
> > +       uchar buff_unaligned[FEC_MAX_PKT_SIZE + (ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN - 1)];
> > +       uchar *buff = ((uint32_t)buff_unaligned + (ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN -
> > 1)) & ~(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN - 1);
> 
> You should use the ALIGN() macro here.

We already have this stuff in include/common.h ... ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGNED_BUFFER it 
is called IIRC

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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