From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753080AbaIECJW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 22:09:22 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40864 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961AbaIECJS (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 22:09:18 -0400 Message-ID: <54091B30.2090509@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:08:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Hurley , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Laight CC: Jakub Jelinek , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Tony Luck , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , Oleg Nesterov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Paul Mackerras , "Paul E. McKenney" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , Miroslav Franc , Richard Henderson , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing References: <20140712181328.GA8738@redhat.com> <54079B70.4050200@hurleysoftware.com> <1409785893.30640.118.camel@pasglop> <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D17487172@AcuExch.aculab.com> <1409824374.4246.62.camel@pasglop> <5408E458.3@zytor.com> <54090AF4.7060406@hurleysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <54090AF4.7060406@hurleysoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/04/2014 05:59 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > I have no idea how prevalent the ev56 is compared to the ev5. > Still we're talking about a chip that came out in 1996. Ah yes, I stand corrected. According to Wikipedia, the affected CPUs were all the 2106x CPUs (EV4, EV45, LCA4, LCA45) plus the 21164 with no suffix (EV5). However, we're still talking about museum pieces here. I wonder what the one I have in my garage is... I'm sure I could emulate it faster, though. -hpa