Subject: Re: wireless vs. alignment requirements

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:42:26 -0800

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Is there any standard kernel config define for "this platform can't do
> unaligned accesses"?
> 

Not that I know of, but there should be.

To be somewhat more complexicated, some platforms (e.g. MIPS) can do 
unaligned references quite cheaply, but they need different opcodes to 
do so.

	-hpa