Re: bitops atomicity question

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Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:19:07 +0100 (BST)

> hmmm, what happened to the CAS/TAS (and firends) on the m68k ? get dropped
> from the '30 or is SMP yet to be ported o m68k anyway ?

Many M68K systems don't support the RMW bus cycle used by TAS