Thomas Schwinge, le Mon 16 Nov 2009 23:02:36 +0100, a écrit : > Jeez, I didn't think about simply asking my own documentation system... > <http://www.bddebian.com:8888/~hurd-web/open_issues/xen_crash_copy-size_le_page_size/>. > But does that really answer my question?
Yes: data has to be 512-byte aligned anyway. When it's not aligned on a page there is little chance it's aligned on 512 bytes and it makes the code way simpler (no need to fiddle with the first sector offset of the request). Samuel