On Tuesday 13 November 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > You're missing something; that is one of the greatest powers of open > source. The many eyes (and minds) effect. Someone out there probably > has a solution to whatever problem, the trick is to find that person. :) > > I think we have a working solution for this for ARM. It won't be suitable > for every arch, where they have 8-bit and 16-bit registers able to be > allocated by the compiler, but for architectures where the minimum register > size is 32-bit, what we have below should work. I don't mind at all adding the extension to ARM, and I think it's pretty cool that you guys actually found a working solution. The part that worries me is that we are making architecture independent code depend on a clever hack that may or may not be possible to implement on a given architecture, and that most architecture maintainers wouldn't know how to implement correctly even if it's possible. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
