[PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clear SCTLR.A bit for v7 cores

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Mon Nov 5 11:13:51 EST 2012


On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 01:02:55PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Why not allow unaligned accesses in the decompressor, though, both
> > for v6 and v7?
> 
> EXACTLY.

I have no objections to that.  In fact, I made a remark to this effect 
in my initial review of this patch.  Whether or not gcc does take 
advantage of this hardware ability in the end is orthogonal.


Nicolas



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