Re: ARMv5 and atomic operations

[Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/23/2012 10:36 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 04/23/2012 02:16 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
>>> As we get closer to having 100% package coverage in F17-ARM we're 
>>> running into harder build failures due to the limitations of the chips 
>>> we're building for.  The problem I've noticed on many of the recent 
>>> failures is due to the lack of atomic operations (These didn't arrive 
>>> until ARMv6).  How do we want to handle this?  I see a few options:
>>>
>>> 1. Abandon armv5 and move to armv6 where some of the operations we need 
>>> are available.  This will still support the raspberry pi- what about 
>>> kirkwood *plugs?
>>
>> Hold on, I thought that Raspberry Pi was a separate remix, and F17
>> was targeted at ARMv7?
> 
> Oh? My understanding was that F17 was to have both armv5tel and armv7hl 
> builds.

Oh, I see.  Is any of this documented anywhere?

And can someone tell me if there is a F17 root fs for Raspberry Pi that
I can download?

Thanks,
Andrew.
_______________________________________________
arm mailing list
arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm