Re: Just to understand, ARM64 has SMP and ARM32 does not? &, OpenBSD design fine with ARM's weak mem coherency?

2017-02-26 Thread Todd C. Miller
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 03:56:33 +, Tinker wrote: > Did I get it right, that ARM64 has SMP (as of the patches this week), > but ARM32 does not have SMP and will not get it too? As Peter says, someone has to step up andf do the work for ARM32 SMP. That said, it probably doesn't make sense to

Re: Just to understand, ARM64 has SMP and ARM32 does not? &, OpenBSD design fine with ARM's weak mem coherency?

2017-02-25 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2017 Feb 26 (Sun) at 03:56:33 + (+), Tinker wrote: :Hi misc, : :I just wanted to understand what's going on with SMP on ARM - : :Did I get it right, that ARM64 has SMP (as of the patches this week), but :ARM32 does not have SMP and will not get it too? : :What was the reason for not

Just to understand, ARM64 has SMP and ARM32 does not? &, OpenBSD design fine with ARM's weak mem coherency?

2017-02-25 Thread Tinker
Hi misc, I just wanted to understand what's going on with SMP on ARM - Did I get it right, that ARM64 has SMP (as of the patches this week), but ARM32 does not have SMP and will not get it too? What was the reason for not implementing SMP on ARM32? (I only need SMP on ARM64 so just wanted