Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port))

[Pavel Roskin]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 23:22 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:51:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > You may want to use 4 byte alignment too.  It's a good thing to align
> > 32-bit addresses in the ELF headers.
> 
> Ok, but we aren't doing it on i386-pc, and this never caused trouble.  The
> ELF headers in our modules are only loaded by GRUB itself, and if our
> loader can cope with unaligned addresses, why bother trying to align
> them?

Maybe to speed up things.  But I don't really care.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin