linux-kernel - Re: Is 386 processor still supported?

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Message-ID: <20090115133252.28c36adb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:32:52 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol@...k.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?

>  UP emulation of CMPXCHG and XADD for userland should be rather trivial, 
> so why not include it like with LL/SC for MIPS?

Why not just ship an additional libc with the right options ?
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