On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > >Well then what is "really risc"? RISC is an old beaten down marketing > >term > >AFAICT and ARM claims it too. > > Reduced Instruction Set Computer. This is why we're unlikely to have > complex atomic instructions: the principle of risc is that you build > them up from basic ones. RISC cpus have instruction to construct complex atomic actions by the cpu as I have shown before for ARM. Principles always have exceptions to them. (That statement in itself is a principle that should have an exception I guess. But then language often only makes sense when it contains contradictions.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
