Re: DragonFly hung up in Vmware

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     It seems unlikely.  There should be no uses of cmpxchg if you build a UP
:>     kernel to run under vmware.
:
:Hm... this isn't emitted by the compiler under normal circumstances? 
:According to [1], this is a 486+ instruction.  Then again, it could be 
:like, say, xlat (which I've never seen a compiler emit).

    cmpxchg is not emitted by the compiler under any circumstances other
    then if you specify it in inline assembly.  It is a very specialized
    instruction.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>