Re: [PATCH] fix zlib debug in ppc boot header

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 01:50:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 28, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:36:33PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 28, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > > Olaf, has having this code work for you ever been useful? Thanks.
> >
> > The debug stuff? Sure. Now I know we have to improve the memcpy
> > alignment handling. But thats a different story.
>
> Can you please elaborate? Thanks.

ppc 601 barfs on unaligned string instructions. we can handle the
exceptions when the kernel runs, but not when OF is still in charge.


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