Dear Scott Wood,
In message <20091006171203.ga10...@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
>
> > I don't know all flavours of Power machines, but gcc seems to align
> > "double" on 64 bit boundaries. This makes me think it might be needed.
>
> Plus, explicit alignment (cacheline, page, some DMA alignment
> restriction, etc) could have been requested on something in the BSS. I'd
> keep it at least page-aligned if possible.
We have no notation of "pages" in U-Boot. Linker scripts typically use
256 byte alignment as the most strict requriement, and this is
randomly chosen, either. I guess cache line size would do just fine
(and even this is probably overkill).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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