Allocate the pbuf large enough to handle worst case alignment and
align its payload after the allocation. I do this on the PPC (8349)
with Receive Buffers that must be 64 byte-aligned. I added an
LWIP_ASSERT on the payload & 0x3F being 0 to be sure I had it right.
I store the payload into the Rx BD and keep a pointer to the pbuf in a
static array whose index is the same as the Rx BD.
Bill
*From:* address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden *On
Behalf Of *Muhamad Ikhwan Ismail
*Sent:* Friday, May 09, 2008 9:10 AM
*To:* address@hidden
*Subject:* [lwip-users] Misalignment problems on PowerPC (little
endian mode)
Hi,
I am interested in knowing if there is any other user of lwip who has
managed to implement lwip in PowerPC (little endian mode)
and got rid of the lil endian misalignment exceptions ? As lwip strips
the Ethernet header (14 bytes) the IP addr fields (4 bytes) in the IP
header sits on
a non-aligned address.My FEC is setup in a way that all received
buffers are stored directly into the pbufs instead of a temporary
buffer to minimize latency,
so the ethernet padding option does not really work for me. The FEC
can only save frames into addresses multiple of 16 only.
So for me (as far as my knowledge limits me :) ) there 2 other
possibilities left, one is packing the structure, or apply changes on
the ip address
functions and macros so that it works with the ip address as 2 16 bit
fields instead of 1 32 bits field. Unfortunately I couldnt make
structure packing
work with my compiler (Wind River Compiler). I am interested in
knowing if anyone has done the same thing and mind sharing experience
? Any
thoughts,ideas and feedbacks would also be welcomed.
ps: I have an alignment fixing subroutine, but then again we want to
minimize the latency.
Greetings and thanks in advance
Ikhwan Ismail
ABB STOTZ-KONTAKT GmbH
Heidelberg
Germany
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