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From: linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com (Linus Walleij)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v6)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:02:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3CSSQLqajFimJxbq8TFBQ6iVx3RtdC9ObVj2-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100719194940.GA14766@shutemov.name>

2010/7/19 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>:

> Why do we need this? Why do not just fix broken programs?

People tend to use some third-party precompiled binaries, some of
them compiled with a compiler using SWP.

A typical example is the CDC Java runtime, JRE.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-19 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-19 18:02 [PATCH] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v6) Leif Lindholm
2010-07-19 19:49 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-07-19 20:02   ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2010-07-19 21:26     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-07-28  6:06     ` Pavel Machek
2010-07-29 10:13       ` Siarhei Siamashka
2010-07-29 19:28         ` Pavel Machek
2010-07-30 10:04           ` Siarhei Siamashka
2010-07-31 10:52             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-31 11:29               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-02 18:45                 ` Leif Lindholm
2010-08-03 19:42     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-07-20  9:12 ` Catalin Marinas

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