On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I could always send a 3rd version with a comment smashed on about why that works if you think this is a problem.. BR, -R > 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 -- 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
