On 26 June 2018 at 06:10, David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This adds some helpers to load (32 or 64 bit) words from an fdt blob, even > if they're unaligned and we're on a platform that doesn't like plain > unaligned loads and stores. We then use the helpers in a number of places. > There are two purposes for this: > > 1) This makes libfdt more robust against a blob loaded at an unaligned > address. It's usually good practice to load a blob at a 64-bit > alignment, but it's nice to work even then. > > 2) Users can use these helpers to load integer values from within property > values. These can often be unaligned, even if the blob as a whole is > aligned, since some property encodings have integers and strings mixed > together without any alignment gaps. > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree-compiler" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
