Hi Joey On 4/20/07, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
This is interesting because it's the same issue I'm seeing (with etch's kernel) trying to get aufs to work on arm. Isn't this a more general issue that cmpxchg should be available for arm? Why is the existing handler for cmpxchg not being built I wonder?
I haven't looked into the reasons in depth yet, but there does seem to be a history of some discussion on this topic [1,2]. Gordon [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/6/180 [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.20-rc1 (commit 4594bf159f1962cec3b727954b7c598b07e2e737) -- Gordon Farquharson