From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:30:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:13038 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28576485AbYBHT37 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:29:59 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m18JTw9Z023042; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:29:58 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m18JTvfx023041; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:29:57 GMT Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 19:29:57 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Florian Lohoff Cc: Kumba , Thiemo Seufer , Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, debian-mips@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tester with IP27/IP30 needed Message-ID: <20080208192957.GA18947@linux-mips.org> References: <20080126143949.GA6579@alpha.franken.de> <47A4E9DF.5070603@gentoo.org> <20080203021647.GA15910@linux-mips.org> <20080203062711.GA28394@paradigm.rfc822.org> <47A80C0A.4040106@gentoo.org> <20080205122211.GA24136@networkno.de> <47A928BF.5000302@gentoo.org> <20080206085610.GA20751@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20080206142217.GA7633@linux-mips.org> <20080208172316.GD25893@paradigm.rfc822.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080208172316.GD25893@paradigm.rfc822.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 18209 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:23:16PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > You mean a single page in every processes address space or some > /proc/sys/kernel/libatomic.so which would be a really cool hack? The way it's being done on x86 doesn't work for MIPS unless we use supervisor mode but supervisor mode is not implemented on all CPUs and also of interest for virtualization. Ralf