Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel

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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> 
> 
>> Use a global variable testable by the inline code?
> 
> 
>  With both variants inlined?  Now that's really ugly.
> 
> 
>>>  Are vr41xx plain ISA I or crippled ISA II+ CPUs?
>> 
>> Actually, they are crippled MIPS III+ 64-bit CPUs
> 
> 
>  Then an ll/sc and lld/scd emulation seems to be most appropriate here.  I
> don't think we want to add _test_and_set() to mips64*-linux. 

All the cases I've seen have been for 32-bit kernels. A 64-bit PDA kernel seems like a wee tiny bit of overkill



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