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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>