On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 11:53 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > Rather than specialising it for LEON, why not just test for CASA > > availability and use it if it available? > > Run time detection of this is going to really be terrible. > > Lots of cmpxchg() uses are inline, and we'll have to implement > it out-of-line and patch the call instructions dynamically. > > LEON is the only chip that can do the instruction and we already > do a special LEON specific build. Inlines do save a lot of time, so I guess you're right there's no point. But I think changing the way IRQ15/IRQ14 interrupt works could be an extra bonus. -- 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
