[PATCH] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v6)

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Wed Jul 28 02:06:49 EDT 2010


On Mon 2010-07-19 22:02:12, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2010/7/19 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>:
> 
> > Why do we need this? Why do not just fix broken programs?
> 
> People tend to use some third-party precompiled binaries, some of
> them compiled with a compiler using SWP.

Why not just let the cpu emulate it? It surely will be faster...?

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