On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 04:24:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Tons of CPU's have efficient char accesses but horrible unaligned word > accesses. Some are even outright buggy (ie at least some ARM cores) > and load crap. Others take a fault. To be fair, that wasn't the ARM core. That was the MEMC chip (roughly equivalent to a northbridge). Also, there's no need for Linux to care about that any more, since we removed the arm26 port in July 2007. As far as I know, all arm32 cores have been coupled with memory controllers that are functional. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
