From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755800Ab0DNOiQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:38:16 -0400 Received: from ns2.intersolute.de ([193.110.43.67]:47032 "EHLO ns2.intersolute.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755698Ab0DNOiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:38:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC5D34F.80304@lumino.de> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:38:07 +0200 From: Michael Schnell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.0.4-2.3 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , nios2-dev Subject: Re: atomic RAM ? References: <4BBD86A5.5030109@lumino.de> <20100408114542.47b6589a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4BBDC7D4.6040301@lumino.de> <20100408143750.0acebaa1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4BC5B915.6090803@lumino.de> <20100414135704.3fc7b713@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100414135704.3fc7b713@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/14/2010 02:57 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > The important point is that you don't *have* to use futex to provide the > posix pthread lock primitives if they don't fit your platform. > I don't *have* to use Linux to provide the function the controller is supposed to do for the end-user :). But Linux is a very decent way to make it happen.... -Michael