Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965148AbWH2Qxo (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:53:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965153AbWH2Qxn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:53:43 -0400 Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([194.74.144.162]:60092 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965148AbWH2Qxk (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:53:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:53:52 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: David Howells Cc: Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Dong Feng , ak@suse.de, Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? Message-ID: <20060829165352.GA20453@linux-mips.org> References: <20060829162055.GA31159@linux-mips.org> <44F395DE.10804@yahoo.com.au> <1156750249.3034.155.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <11861.1156845927@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <5878.1156868702@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5878.1156868702@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 482 Lines: 13 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:25:02PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Some of these have LL/SC or equivalent instead, but ARM5 and before, FRV, M68K > before 68020 to name but a few. 68k before 68020 isn't supported by Linux anyway. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/