testandset on powerpc

[Franz Sirl]

At 14:43 21.07.00, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >>>>> Andreas Jaeger writes:
>
> >>>>> Franz Sirl writes:
>Franz> I have done a patch which defines IMPLEMENT_TAS_AS_CAS in 
>powerpc/pt-machine.h and
>Franz> define testandset(p) to !__compare_and_swap(p,0,1) in spinlock.h 
>then. I haven't sent it
>AJ> That sounds fine.  Please send the patch for review.
>
>Hi Franz,
>
>what happened to your fix?  Is it working?  In that case please send
>it soon to get ppc working again.

I tried it Wednesday evening, but the build still stopped with the rpcgen 
problem :-(. I did a "make -k check" on this half-build and I think the 
lowest-level failing stuff were the string tests, but I didn't have time to 
analyze further yet, probably over the weekend...

Franz.