Re: Test atomic operations on SPARC 32-bit

[Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>]

Hi Adrian,

> On 12/08/2017 10:32 PM, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > I'm sorry to ask a question here which is not directly related to Debian, it just about
> > SPARC 32-bit.

> > Does anyone have SPARC 32-bit machine and would be willing to allow to give me SSH account
> > for some testing?
> > They used to have them at GCC Compile Farm Project [2], but not any more.

> Do you need SPARCv7, SPARCv8 or SPARCv8+ aka SPARCv9 with 32 bits?

> I'm asking because atomic operations were only added with SPARCv8+ and later.
SPARCv8 would be enough as SPARCv7 is dead. So still no hw support.

> In any case, the Gentoo people are still on 32-Bit SPARC. You might ask there
> first (see #gentoo-sparc on Freenode). Otherwise, we will have to create a
> 32-Bit chroot for you but that would probably take a bit longer.
OK, I'll ask them and if not works I'll come back.

Thank you!


Kind regards,
Petr

> Adrian