[PATCH] Add .set arch=FOO support to MIPS gas.
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
Mon Jun 30 10:56:00 GMT 2003
On 29 Jun 2003 cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> > There _are_ 64bit CPUs without ll/sc, from a vendor which shall remain
> > unnamed. ATM, we just ignore the problem and assemble those insns
> > happily for them.
>
> and many kernels will emulate them. 8-)
There are currently no plans to emulate ll/sc in the 64-bit Linux kernel
-- the chips are much to braindamaged to care about them. And the 32-bit
kernel does ll/sc emulation because of MIPS I processors and not broken
implementations, which can take advantage of the fact by pure luck only.
;-)
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+ Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland +
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