Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:06:27 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Architectures with strict alignment? Message-ID: <20071229220628.0E9CD5B2E@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:46:44 %2B1100." <20071229214644.GY40785@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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> (though the AMD29K could apparently generate > dummy bus cycles to limit the number of bit transitions on any cycle > to reduce the I/O load). Are you sure it was the amd29k? I don't recall anything like that (and am too lazy to dig out its datasheets!). It too requiredd strict alignment though you could fix up unaligned accesses in a trap handler at some cost.
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