| Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add OMAP hardware spinlock misc driver | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:46:55 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:44 +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote: > OMAP4 introduces a Spinlock hardware module, which provides hardware > assistance for synchronization and mutual exclusion between heterogeneous > processors and those not operating under a single, shared operating system > (e.g. OMAP4 has dual Cortex-A9, dual Cortex-M3 and a C64x+ DSP).
I just have to ask... was it really easier to build silicon than to agree on a spinlock ABI?
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