Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce the Counter character device interface | From | David Lechner <> | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 2020 10:18:07 -0500 |
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On 5/31/20 12:14 PM, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > Yielding the following /dev/counter0 memory layout: > > +------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------+ > | Byte 0 | Byte 1 - Byte 8 | Byte 9 | Byte 10 - Byte 17 | > +------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------+ > | Boundary 0 | Count 0 | Boundary 1 | Count 1 | > +------------+-----------------+------------+-------------------+
A potential pitfall with this sort of packing is that some platforms do not support unaligned access, so data would have to be "unpacked" before it could be used.
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