On 12/09/2017 12:21 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: >> 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.
>From what I have heard, SPARCv7 should actually work since people added kernel helpers to the Linux kernel to emulate the atomics for v7 hardware. SPARCv8 doesn't have Compare-And-Swap either, SPARCv8+ does which is what most people run these days when they run 32-Bit-SPARC. >> 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. They just started working on their SPARC port again. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
