[PATCH] powerpc: add compile-time support for lbarx, lwarx

Gabriel Paubert paubert at iram.es
Mon Nov 9 07:01:52 AEDT 2020


On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 05:42:57AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 08:12:13AM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:23:28PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > > ISA v2.06 (POWER7 and up) as well as e6500 support lbarx and lwarx.
> > 
> > Hmm, lwarx exists since original Power AFAIR,
> 
> Almost: it was new on PowerPC.

I stand corrected. Does this mean that Power1 (and 2 I believe) had 
no SMP support?

	Gabriel
 



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