[fedora-arm] ARMv5 and atomic operations

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Jeff Voskamp <jeff at voskamp.ca> wrote:
> On 04/23/2012 11:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> Chris Tyler<chris at tylers.info>  writes:
>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> That would kill the older plugs -- anything below a d2plug.
>>>
>>> However: do we care? Much? Going to v6 would let us optimize better for
>>> the Raspi, which will have greater market penetration than the plugs
>>> when existing orders are filled. Otoh, it's a whole 'nuther rebuild.
>>
>>
>> I care.  I've got existing plugs that I'd like to continue to use on
>> Fedora.  Unless someone wants to buy them off me so I can buy something
>> else?  ;)
>>
>> -derek
>
>
> What he said.
> Especially with Pi's being Xmas Christmas presents if you're ordering them
> now.

If you'd bothered to read the full thread you'd realise that Pi's
aren't in this discussion because they are ARMv6 and the discussion
was if we move to ARMv6 to fix the problem, and it turns out there's
likely means of dealing with the issues anyway.

Peter