On 12/10/05, Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> This code makes the assumption that it is OK to have a pointer on any
> arbitrary 32-bit boundary. This should be OK for ARM, but is it OK for all
> CPUs?

Should be. Anyone with weird alignment might (in theory) take a data
exception and fix it up with a few additional loads in the kernel. The
wide patch is fine on ppc, it's what I've done all of my recent YAFFS
work on.

Jon.