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Count Leading Zeroes Instruction
--------------------------------
-The ARMv5 and later has the count leading zeroes ``clz`` instruction which
-could be used to speed up the find first bit operation. The use of this
-instruction should significantly speed up the scheduling associated with a
-thread blocking. This is currently not used.
+The ARMv5 and later instruction sets have the count leading zeroes ``clz``
+instruction which could be used to speed up the find first bit operation. The
+use of this instruction should significantly speed up the scheduling associated
+with a thread blocking. This is currently not used.
Floating Point Unit
-------------------
@@ -130,7 +130,13 @@ Memory Model
============
A flat 32-bit memory model is supported. The board support package must take
-care about the MMU if necessary.
+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
====================
@@ -194,13 +200,13 @@ actions:
Symmetric Multiprocessing
=========================
-SMP is supported on ARMv7-A. Available platforms are
+SMP is supported on ARMv7-A. Available platforms are:
-- Altera Cyclone V,
+- Altera Cyclone V
-- NXP i.MX 7, and
+- NXP i.MX 7
-- Xilinx Zynq.
+- Xilinx Zynq
Thread-Local Storage
====================