Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765822AbZAOOrJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:47:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757461AbZAOOqx (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:46:53 -0500 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:52413 "EHLO lug-owl.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760294AbZAOOqx (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:46:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:46:51 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Alan Cox Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Kosina , Adam Osuchowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported? Message-ID: <20090115144651.GZ11087@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Kosina , Adam Osuchowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <1231424025.11687.447.camel@twins> <1231424833.11687.452.camel@twins> <20090108150448.2393aeb0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090108151046.GK18120@elte.hu> <20090115123614.GR11087@lug-owl.de> <20090115133252.28c36adb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="svxYMya3cuHlfhYO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090115133252.28c36adb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.18-5-686 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-message-flag: Please send plain text messages only. Do not send HTML emails. Thank you. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1381 Lines: 44 --svxYMya3cuHlfhYO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-01-15 13:32:52 +0000, Alan Cox wrot= e: > > UP emulation of CMPXCHG and XADD for userland should be rather trivial,= =20 > > so why not include it like with LL/SC for MIPS? >=20 > Why not just ship an additional libc with the right options ? Due to another historic bug, which created libcs targeted for i386 containing the locking code for i486, as I was told back when I first showed interest for real i386 hardware. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: Friends are relatives you make for yourself. the second : --svxYMya3cuHlfhYO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJb0xbHb1edYOZ4bsRAsi+AJ0eWxIsMHV6OfTkjBY74ydin6bBkgCeKUpE A01FelQkf4o2hhqb8Wj/epw= =714F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --svxYMya3cuHlfhYO-- -- 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/