From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uses of cmpxchg/xadd in spinlock.h and rwsem.h vs. CONFIG_M386
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:04:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A099DFC.7040905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090512155702.GB31131@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Is it time to get rid of attempts to support SMP kernels that run on 386, then?
> Considering we don't actually support SMP 386, and if there is any 386 systems
> then they're going to be running custom kernels anyway.
>
Makes sense to me. We have never supported SMP 386 to the best of my
knowledge, and a patch to rip that out would be appreciated.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 15:19 uses of cmpxchg/xadd in spinlock.h and rwsem.h vs. CONFIG_M386 Jan Beulich
2009-05-12 15:37 ` Nick Piggin
2009-05-12 15:57 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-12 16:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 15:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-12 15:57 ` Nick Piggin
2009-05-12 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-05-12 16:16 ` Jan Beulich
2009-05-12 16:18 ` Andreas Schwab
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