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SubjectRe: Is 386 processor still supported?
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Subject: x86: make spinlocks available on machines without xadd insn
> > Current kernel wouldn't compile on ancient x86 machines that don't support
> > xadd instruction, as ticket spinlocks implementation unconditionally uses
> > it.
> > On machines without CONFIG_X86_XADD, use old-style byte spinlock
> > implementation instead.
> afaik we don't support i386-smp and up spinlocks are trivial
> preempt_disable() calls.

Hmm. Where in Kconfig is SMP for M386 not allowed?

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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