[U-Boot] Unaligned data transfers?

Hi,

I have a question regarding (disk) transfers. For example Sata read and write takes an unspecified address which very well could be an unaligned byte address.

Many DMA-controllers though require 16 or 32bit alignments for transfers.

Is it safe to assume that the address is correct or bail out with an error message if source/destinaton address isn't correctly aligned for the underlaying HW?

/Tor