Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed

From: Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@inwestnet.de)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 11:45:40 EST


> > 4 byte aligned on x86 and god knows how its aligned on an S/390
> I don't know how it *is* aligned on the S/390, but it should be at least
> 2 byte aligned

It should be _at most_ 2 byte aligned. Aligning a 2 byte value to a four
byte boundary doesn't make sense, as you couldn't do it in arrays ...

Of course, not aligning it at all doesn't make much sense, so u16 alignment
is pretty much fixed ...

        Philipp Rumpf

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