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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:05:18 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES
Message-ID:  <200403311105.19088.john@baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn05xq4bh.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <20040328094048.GA40406@phantom.cris.net> <20040330232429.GA65170@phantom.cris.net> <xzpn05xq4bh.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tuesday 30 March 2004 06:54 pm, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:05:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > NOTES is not intended as a list of supported device and options.  We
> > > have src/sys/conf/files* and src/sys/conf/options* for that.
> >
> > Strange.  IMO LINT was existed for exactly this reason
>
> Your opinion does not matter.  The purpose of LINT is to cover as much
> code as possible.  Why do you think it's called LINT?
>
> (hint: man lint)
>
> > I am not asking for patches, but if you would provide me general
> > description how to realize that CPU_I386 conflicts with SMP and
> > ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES depends on SMP (using your way) I would be happy and
> > re-think my approach.
>
> CPU_I386 should not conflict with SMP, but a kernel build with both
> will be very slow.

No, it does conflict.  There's no cmpxchg on i386 and no one has had the=20
desire or time to emulate one for 386 machines.  Doing so would be a waste =
in=20
my opinion as well.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>  <><  http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =3D  http://www.FreeBSD.org



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