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Re: Userspace RCU library relicensed to LGPLv2.1
- From: Jan Blunck <jblunck at suse dot de>
- To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at polymtl dot ca>
- Cc: ltt-dev at lists dot casi dot polymtl dot ca,"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>,steven dot bennett at us dot ibm dot com,tech-board <tech-board at lists dot linux-foundation dot org>,Robert Wisniewski <bob at watson dot ibm dot com>,Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr at ioremap dot net>,Dominique Toupin <dominique dot toupin at ericsson dot com>,Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn dot net>, Jake Edge <jake at lwn dot net>,zbrown at tumblerings dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:27:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Userspace RCU library relicensed to LGPLv2.1
- References: <20090513204308.GA27340@Krystal>
On Wed, May 13, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> It currently supports x86 and powerpc. LGPL-compatible low-level
> primitive headers will be required for other architectures. Note that
> the build system is at best rudimentary at the moment.
Is there a specific reason why the atomic_ops implementation was used instead
of the atomic builtins that come with GCC? IIRC, they are implemented on all
architectures already.
Regards,
Jan
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Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>