Re: Please requeue atlas3

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:51:03 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:

  Matthew> I think the only ISA addition so far is BranchLong which
  Matthew> gets emulated by the kernel.  I hear murmurings of
  Matthew> additional instructions in future processors, but let's
  Matthew> cross that bridge when there's silicon to be had.

There is also the 16-byte-atomic-ops extension.  The Ski simulator has
been supporting that for some time, so in that sense it exists
already:

 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep features
 features   : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops

;-)

	--david