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[07/24,v5] manual: document dependencies on atomic operations

Message ID fa8f747100cacb85a0a9263abd4b26ec34e6c880.1408303753.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr
State Accepted
Commit a30b868de6cc147335ce506833ac0848a517e912
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Yann E. MORIN Aug. 17, 2014, 7:29 p.m. UTC
From: Anton Kolesov <anton.kolesov@synopsys.com>

Add atomic operations to the list of generic dependencies.

Since this is an architecture option, there is no comment string to be
added.

Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: use the new arch-option; remove comment string]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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 docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt | 5 +++++
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diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
index 93e6a3e..fd9460c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
@@ -219,6 +219,11 @@  use in the comment.
 ** Dependency symbol: +BR2_USE_MMU+
 ** Comment string: no comment to be added
 
+* Atomic instructions (whereby the architecture has instructions to
+  perform some operations atomically, like LOCKCMPXCHG on x86)
+** Dependency symbol: +BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS+
+** Comment string: no comment to be added
+
 * Kernel headers
 ** Dependency symbol: +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_X_Y+, (replace
    +X_Y+ with the proper version, see +toolchain/toolchain-common.in+)