[fedora-arm] ARMv5 and atomic operations

[Andrew Haley]

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?

Andrew.