Re: cmpxchg is not available to generic code

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 04:24:14 EST


On 7/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:15:03 +1000 "Dave Airlie" <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe we could add CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG and let DRM depend on it..

That would certainly be better than adding a sprinkle of architectures
in DRM Kconfig dependencies.

I don't know how important DRM is on ARM. Zero?


I'd guess zero I suppose if you wanted you could hook up a PCI
graphics card on ARM, but if you do that I think you could implement
cmpxchg :-)

Dave.
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