Subject: Re: lock-free data structures
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/04/2006 15:32:50
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:55:14PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:

> >As for CAS - isn't CAS only forbidden in CHIPMEM?
>=20
> The "forbidden in CHIPMEM" rule applies to the 68000,
> it uses a special bus cycle that doesn't fit into
> a DMA slot and the result is undefined.
>=20
> 68020 and higher use a dedicated locking signal,
> I am not aware of any Amiga hardware that interprets
> it and I haven't seen any CPU board that would
> synthesize the special 68000 bus cycles for
> Zorro-II hardware that might interpret an 68000 TAS.

So... as the Amiga is a single-CPU machine (well, as supported by
NetBSD) would it just work?

	-is

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