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Re: Is it the right forum?
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: Nick Garnett <nickg at redhat dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:03:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Is it the right forum?
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <wwglmgoear0.fsf@balti.cambridge.redhat.com> <3C08C80D.246145C5@codito.com> <wwg1yi88p9v.fsf@balti.cambridge.redhat.com>
Nick Garnett wrote:
>
> Another approach is to use lock-free synchronization mechanisms to
> update kernel data structures. Again this would require major
> restructuring, and not all architectures have support for the
> compare-and-swap operations that this would need.
Which reminds me, have you seen these patches?
http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi/ecos
Now if only Luoqi had a copyright assignment.... (hint, hint :-)).
Jifl
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