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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