13 Jan
2020
13 Jan
'20
7:44 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 7:47 AM Luis Chamberlain mcgrof@kernel.org wrote:
So I'd like to determine first if we really need this. Then if so, either add a new global config option, and worst comes to worst figure out a way to do it per driver. I don't think we'd need it per driver.
I really don't think we need to have a config option for some small alignment. Increasing the alignment unconditionally to 16 bytes won't hurt anybody.
Now, whether there might be other firmware loaders that need even more alignment, that might be an interesting question, and if such an alignment would be _huge_ we might want to worry about actual memory waste.
But 16-byte alignment for a fw blob? That's nothing.
Linus