Hi Albert, On 02/12/2014 05:31 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > Hi Hector, > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:24:26 +0100, "Palacios, Hector" > <hector.palac...@digi.com> wrote: > >> Unfortunately this is causing unaligned access in my i.MX6. >> I'm specifically passing the -mno-unaligned-access when building this file >> so I guess >> it has to do with the macro and the packed structure. > > I don't think this is due to packed structures, because > -mno-unaligned-access tells the compiler that unaligned fields in > packed structures should be accesses by breaking the unaligned access > into smaller aligned ones, so this would not cause an alignment abort. > > What can cause an alignment abort despite -mno-unaligned-access is > dereferencing a badly aligned pointer, and this is probably what > happens here.
Oh, the macro ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER is returning a correctly aligned value for the pointer: 0x4FD33BA0 The problem is we don't have to free() the pointer anymore at the end of the function. I'll repost the patch -- Héctor Palacios _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
