Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel

[Joe deBlaquiere <jadb@redhat.com>]

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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