Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965153AbWH2Q7v (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965141AbWH2Q7v (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:59:51 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:63124 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965122AbWH2Q7t (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:59:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:58:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Ralf Baechle cc: David Howells , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Dong Feng , ak@suse.de, Paul Mackerras , Linux Kernel Development , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? In-Reply-To: <20060829165352.GA20453@linux-mips.org> Message-ID: 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> <20060829165352.GA20453@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 25 On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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. uClinux anyone? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/