On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 19:54 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > We are thinking of switching the LEON port to use CASA (compare and > swap), just like in the sparc64 port. Most newer leon3/4 processors > implement CASA, even if the instruction belongs to sparc V9 and not > V8. Would a patch like that be accepted (for the LEON port only)? This > will not fix the SMP for general sparc32 (which really is broken), but > it would fix it for LEON. > > It should be fine as long as the patches are clean enough. Rather than specialising it for LEON, why not just test for CASA availability and use it if it available? -- Tactical Nuclear Kittens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
