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Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Well, if you want to support SMP, you really need full atomic operations,
> the easiest way for that would be the load-locked / store conditional
> method used on most RISC machines.

I see. But unless Altera provides an enhancement to the NIOS2 design, we
are lost here.

-Michael