From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
airlied@linux.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cmpxchg is not available to generic code
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:23:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21d7e9970707190123n328300a6m8debe274b959ab30@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719012141.47911bd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 7/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:15:03 +1000 "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe we could add CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG and let DRM depend on it..
>
> That would certainly be better than adding a sprinkle of architectures
> in DRM Kconfig dependencies.
>
> I don't know how important DRM is on ARM. Zero?
>
I'd guess zero I suppose if you wanted you could hook up a PCI
graphics card on ARM, but if you do that I think you could implement
cmpxchg :-)
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-19 7:05 Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 7:27 ` David Miller
2007-07-19 8:15 ` Dave Airlie
2007-07-19 8:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 8:23 ` Dave Airlie [this message]
2007-07-23 6:48 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-19 20:54 ` David Miller
2007-07-19 20:58 ` David Miller
2007-07-19 8:02 ` Dave Airlie
2007-07-19 8:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-19 8:19 ` Dave Airlie
2007-07-19 8:36 ` Andrew Morton
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