Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:29:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf rtld.c rtld.h lockdflt.c src/libexec/rtld-elf/alpha lockdflt.c rtld_machdep.h rtld_start.S src/libexec/rtld-elf/i386 lockdflt.c rtld_machdep.h Message-ID: <20000709232927.A491@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <39644.963175985@localhost>; from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:53:05PM -0700 References: <200007090232.WAA48341@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <39644.963175985@localhost>
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On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:53:05PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Hear hear.. > Not enough of one to actually drop such support, however. That would > be an overly-elitist position for a lot of people to swallow and it > would not send the right message about what sorts of people are > driving things in the FreeBSD Project. The secondary effects of this > would, and probably only in retrospect, cause us to see this as a very > foolhardy decision on our parts. > > - Jordan > > > <<On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:10:38 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org> sai > d: > > > > > spinlocks I used the very nifty "simple, non-scalable reader-preference > > > lock" which I found at > > > > > <http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/synchronization/pseudocode/rw.html > > > > > > > on all CPUs except the 80386 (the specific CPU model, not the > > > architecture). The 80386 CPU doesn't support the necessary "cmpxchg" > > > > Another reason why we should stop supporting the '386. ---end quoted text--- -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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