>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
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>Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
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>> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
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>>> Use a global variable testable by the inline code?
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>>
>> 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
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>>
>> 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
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