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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:38:40 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Subject:   Re: svn on armv5 with clang? (Fwd: svn commit: r254539 - head/usr.bin)
Message-ID:  <D78668AB-5366-4CC8-8679-EA29C3DC16F0@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <1379442285.1197.49.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
References:  <201308191744.r7JHiJ00063824@svn.freebsd.org> <op.w3j64kz18527sy@212-182-167-131.ip.telfort.nl> <20130917190215.7093f261@bender.Home> <1379442285.1197.49.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>

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On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 19:02 +0100, Andrew Turner wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:13:22 +0200
>> "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> I am reading up on commits and found this one. Is ARMv5 capable of =20=

>>> building the in-tree svn also?
>>>=20
>> It is unlikely, I don't think we provide the required atomic =
functions
>> for ARMv5. On armv6 clang provides them, however I don't thing it =
knows
>> how to set up ARM_RAS_START. Without this we have to implement more =
of
>> the __sync_* functions for svn to work on ARMv5. I don't know of any
>> plans to add them.
>>=20
>=20
> I don't remember ever hearing about plans to *drop* support for armv4
> and v5, but with responses like that, that seems to be what's =
underway.

There were *NO* such plans, and if there are it is taking me by =
surprise.

ARM_RAS_START is critical to support armv4/5. I thought it was a =
#define... no?

Warner




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