From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 9 14:29:39 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay01.chello.nl (smtp.chello.nl [212.83.68.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C50737B51E; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay01.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000709213034.VCBH8575.relay01@chello.nl>; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:30:34 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00516; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:29:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:29:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Garrett Wollman , John Polstra , 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> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.org References: <200007090232.WAA48341@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <39644.963175985@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39644.963175985@localhost>; from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:53:05PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > < sai > d: > > > > > spinlocks I used the very nifty "simple, non-scalable reader-preference > > > lock" which I found at > > > > > > > > > > > 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