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Re: testandset on powerpc
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: testandset on powerpc
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:59:44 +0200
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>,libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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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.