Hi Fernando, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Fernando AE <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm bringing up U-Boot for an iMX6UL board, and I've encountered > unaligned memory accesses exceptions while I was trying to test the > ETH commands (e.g., 'ping'). >
Have you located the place where this unaligned memory access happens in U-Boot source codes? > After investigation, I found out that the iMX6UL processor traps > unaligned memory accesses by default. As a workaround, I disabled > theses checks, hoping for negligible performance loss. > How does other ARMv7 targets behave? Do they all turn ff the unaligned memory access trap? > I'm wondering if it is a bad idea to disable unaligned memory accesses > during the U-Boot execution, regarding performance issues or other > drawbacks at the kernel level. Regards, Bin _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
