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diff --git a/cpu-supplement/arm.rst b/cpu-supplement/arm.rst index ac9e8c6..b92e6d6 100644 --- a/cpu-supplement/arm.rst +++ b/cpu-supplement/arm.rst @@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ Memory Model A flat 32-bit memory model is supported. The board support package must take care of initializing the MMU if necessary. +Note that architecture variants which support unaligned accesses must not use +memcpy() or memset() on device memory as those functions are hand-optimized and +will take advantage of unaligned accesses where available. *As per ARM* +(https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0406/c/Application-Level-Architecture/Application-Level-Memory-Model/Alignment-support/Unaligned-data-access-restrictions-in-ARMv7-and-ARMv6), +unaligned accesses are not permitted for device memory. + Interrupt Processing ==================== |