Aligned malloc for dma and mbufs for powerpc ppc405gp

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Gene Smith wrote:
> Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com> wrote, On
> 11/10/2004 07:20 AM:
> 
>>
>> There is a PR with a patch to add this to the heap/region/malloc
>> in RTEMS.  Unfortunately, it was against code that is now over
>> a year old and does not merge easily.  If someone would merge it
>> and resubmit the patch, I would merge it that day.
>>
>> It also reduces the memory used by the heap internally.
>>
>> --joel
> 
> 
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> 
> I will take a look at it when I get a chance. Thanks for pointing this out.

Thanks.  It would really be nice to get that updated
to the development trunk so it is there for 4.7.  I
think it is necessary functionality.

--joel