Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores!

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Thomas Horsten wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2003 02:44, Liu Hongming (Alan) wrote:
> > I am porting linux for a cpu that doesnt support unaligned loads/stores
> > instructions.
> >
> > when using memcpy in arch/mips/memcpy.S,it will not work on these
> > instructions.
> >
> > Any one could help me to deal with this? Have you ever ported linux for
> > this kind cpu?
> >
> > And anyone could tell me which cpu doesnt support these instructions
> > either,and has
> >
> > been ported for linux?
> 
> Almost all MIPS CPU's are like this, and don't support unaligned accesses.

I guess Liu meant the (patented) instructions to do explicit unaligned
accesses.  Real MIPS CPUs do support these.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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