we're going to support unaligned accesses, they make it easy. I think it's silly that have data structs that are not 64-bit aligned, however :-)
ron On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:05 PM Julius Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there no way to make RISCV support unaligned accesses? There's a > bunch of things in coreboot (and especially libpayload) that depend on > it. I think that it generally makes code look much simpler (and run > faster) if you can assume that it's supported across the board. > > If we do need to make CBFS unaligned access aware, we should do it > with some inline functions that fold into a simple read on the > platforms that support them in hardware. > > (Depending on how many such accesses you have and what your context > switch costs are, it might also be feasible to emulate it in an > exception handler... that way you wouldn't need to hunt down every > single occurrence we've accumulated over the years.) >
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