Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce the Counter character device interface

[David Lechner]

On 5/31/20 12:14 PM, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> Yielding the following /dev/counter0 memory layout:
>
> +------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------+
> | Byte 0     | Byte 1 - Byte 8 | Byte 9     | Byte 10 - Byte 17 |
> +------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------+
> | Boundary 0 | Count 0         | Boundary 1 | Count 1           |
> +------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------+

A potential pitfall with this sort of packing is that some platforms
do not support unaligned access, so data would have to be "unpacked"
before it could be used.