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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: SMP safe reference counting
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote:

> Apparently, On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:51:57PM -0500,
> 
> We support 386 still?
> 
We certainly support it but I think that for 386 we can ignore the concept
of SMP and make versions that are not SMP safe but DO
satisfy the basic functionality..

i.e. the '386 version of atomic ops need not be atomic :-)



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