[coreboot] cbfs alignment

Julius Werner jwerner at chromium.org
Sat Jul 18 00:17:21 CEST 2015


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> we're going to support unaligned accesses, they make it easy. I think it's
> silly that have data structs that are not 64-bit aligned, however :-)

Of course. Unfortunately they're usually embedded in age-old
specifications that are extremely hard or impossible to change. ;)
(USB is another prime example that comes to mind... they just *had* to
put those LE16s in the weirdest places for no reason.)



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