Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Big endian contra Little endian

["Antti Lukats" <lukats@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,

good to know - I would assume there could be real performance increase

Antti Lukats
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Williams" <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Big endian contra Little endian


> Antti Lukats wrote:
>
> > another thing is the missing future of unaligned accesses, this could be 
> > fixed by enabling the unaligned exception adding the exception handler 
> > and recompiling the kernel with unalign support
>
> Not missing - it's already there.  Just build a microblaze system with 
> unaligned exceptions enabled, and update auto-config.in.  Build a fresh 
> kernel and voila, transparent unaligned exception handling.  It's a 
> performance hit, and it's much better for drivers not to assume unaligned 
> accesses, but it's there if you want it.
>
> John
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