From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:46:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Add OMAP hardware spinlock misc driver
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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:44 +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> OMAP4 introduces a Spinlock hardware module, which provides hardware
> assistance for synchronization and mutual exclusion between heterogeneous
> processors and those not operating under a single, shared operating system
> (e.g. OMAP4 has dual Cortex-A9, dual Cortex-M3 and a C64x+ DSP). 

I just have to ask... was it really easier to build silicon than to
agree on a spinlock ABI?