>Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:02:46 -0500 >From: Joe deBlaquiere <jadb@redhat.com> >To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> >Subject: Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel > > > >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 I've been asked about running 64 bit binaries on a VR4121. Mike McDonald mikemac@mikemac.com
