From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386
Date: 30 Jul 2003 18:19:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1059585565.10452.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19huHB-0000Or-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
On Mer, 2003-07-30 at 17:58, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> g++ >=3.2 use 486-specific instructions in order to do atomic operations
> in C++ code. 3.3 includes a 386 version of the same code, but it's not
> possible to use a mixture of the two (ie, code compiled with a "486" g++
> will not work on the "386" version), and so to keep ABI compatibility
> with the other distributions it's necessary to break 386. The "obvious"
> solution (dragging this back on topic) is a kernel patch to emulate 486
> instructions on a 386.
You don't need to mash the kernel up for this - you can write yourself a
SIGILL handler to do the work - take a look at things like the pure
software MMX preloader someone wrote.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 13:56 TSCs are a no-no on i386 Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-30 14:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-30 14:44 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-30 16:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2003-07-30 17:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-30 18:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-30 18:30 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-30 18:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-30 20:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30 20:33 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-30 22:19 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-07-31 6:11 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-30 23:05 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-31 11:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-31 11:26 ` Emulating i486+ insn on i386 (was: TSCs are a no-no on i386) Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 11:41 ` TSCs are a no-no on i386 Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 0:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-31 6:22 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 7:17 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-07-31 11:38 ` Emulating i486 on i386 (was: TSCs are a no-no on i386) Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-31 12:14 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 13:01 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 15:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-31 15:33 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-08-01 5:37 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-31 15:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 15:32 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-31 15:07 ` TSCs are a no-no on i386 Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 15:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-07-31 15:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-31 16:24 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-08-06 11:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-08-06 14:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-07-30 20:28 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-30 21:50 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-31 15:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 16:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-31 18:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 19:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-31 6:29 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-30 20:27 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-08-06 16:41 James Bottomley
2003-08-06 16:45 James Bottomley
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