Re: [RFT] [SPARC] Emulate cmpxchg like parisc
From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:30:45 +0100
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:12:33AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
> > Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 00:37:01 +0100
> >
> > > Good to see someone has a crystal ball handy. So a patch like like this
> > > to solve the DRM issue? With it DRM can no longer be selected.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > The DRM code depends on an atomic version of cmpxchg(), which is not
> > > available on sparc32. Since other platforms besides sparc32 have
> > > this issue a KCONFIG option is added for it.
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
> >
> > This looks great, I've applied Kyle's original patch and this
> > one, thanks a lot!
>
> Ehh, Kyle's original patch did not build. See my initial reply to that
> one, which has a version that does build cleanly.
I fixed his version to build and more match the types of the
parisc code when I chekced it in.
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