From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol@zonk.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:46:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090115144651.GZ11087@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090115133252.28c36adb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2009-01-15 13:32:52 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > UP emulation of CMPXCHG and XADD for userland should be rather trivial,
> > so why not include it like with LL/SC for MIPS?
>
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 12:03 Is 386 processor still supported? Adam Osuchowski
2009-01-08 13:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 13:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-08 13:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 14:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-08 15:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 1:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 12:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 13:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-16 10:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-16 11:18 ` Andrey Panin
2009-01-16 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:20 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 14:37 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2009-01-15 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2009-01-08 16:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-08 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
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