Hi All,
I have rewritten the codes,and now it really works.
Our cpu is bought from others,it really doesnt support unaligned access.
Thanks for you all.
Best Regards,
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:ralf@linux-mips.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:37 AM
To: Thomas Horsten
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven; Liu Hongming (Alan); Linux/MIPS Development
Subject: Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores!
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:59PM +0100, Thomas Horsten wrote:
> > That correct. Unfortunately emulating of these instructions in exception
> > handlers would also be covered by the patents, so rewriting which would
> > be rather easy in all cases I can think of is the way to go ...
>
> Surely not in Europe (yet), at least?
The patent itself is a hardware patent and those also cover software
implementations by interpretation of US, European and various national
European patent offices. Otoh the patent will expire in like a year or
two anyway :-)
Ralf
