From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please requeue atlas3
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:34:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16583.36964.328097.688317@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040609165103.GC24864@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
>>>>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:51:03 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:
Matthew> I think the only ISA addition so far is BranchLong which
Matthew> gets emulated by the kernel. I hear murmurings of
Matthew> additional instructions in future processors, but let's
Matthew> cross that bridge when there's silicon to be had.
There is also the 16-byte-atomic-ops extension. The Ski simulator has
been supporting that for some time, so in that sense it exists
already:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep features
features : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops
;-)
--david
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2004-06-09 16:51 Please requeue atlas3 Matthew Wilcox
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