>>>>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:51:03 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
Matthew> I think the only ISA addition so far is BranchLong which
Matthew> gets emulated by the kernel. I hear murmurings of
Matthew> additional instructions in future processors, but let's
Matthew> cross that bridge when there's silicon to be had.
There is also the 16-byte-atomic-ops extension. The Ski simulator has
been supporting that for some time, so in that sense it exists
already:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep features
features : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops
;-)
--david
