Hi Jean-Jacques,

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 06:50, Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhib...@ti.com> wrote:
>
> The FDT specification [0] gives a requirement of aligning properties on
> 32-bits. Make sure that the compiler is aware of this constraint when
> accessing 64-bits properties.
>
> [0]: 
> https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/blob/master/source/flattened-format.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhib...@ti.com>
> ---
>  common/fdt_support.c  | 2 +-
>  drivers/core/ofnode.c | 2 +-
>  lib/fdtdec.c          | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/fdt_support.c b/common/fdt_support.c
> index baf7924ff6..d14cf7f61a 100644
> --- a/common/fdt_support.c
> +++ b/common/fdt_support.c
> @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ static int fdt_read_prop(const fdt32_t *prop, int 
> prop_len, int cell_off,
>                          uint64_t *val, int cells)
>  {
>         const fdt32_t *prop32 = &prop[cell_off];
> -       const fdt64_t *prop64 = (const fdt64_t *)&prop[cell_off];
> +       const fdt64_t *prop64 __aligned(4) = (const fdt64_t *)&prop[cell_off];

Excuse my ignorance, but what does this actually mean? That the
pointer points to something that is aligned?

Regards,
Simon
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