Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Fix unaligned access and endian issues
From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:09:09 +0000
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On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 10:54 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Peter was talking about exporting unaligned.h for host tools so this
> > patch will probably go through another iteration anyway.
> 
> OK.  In that case, I will add this version to my fixes tree in linux-next
> just so that the allmodconfig builds work again.  I will remove it when
> it turns up (presumably in the tip tree).

OK, thanks.

> Just to be clear, it wasn't the unaligned accesses that were causing me a
> problem (PowerPC copes), it was the endian issues.

Right. I'll fix up the commit message to be a bit clearer.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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