[fedora-arm] ARMv5 and atomic operations

[Gordan Bobic]

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.

Gordan