Re: Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

Tom Lane wrote:
> I think it might be possible to develop a localized patch for 7.4 that
> only affects linux-hppa and doesn't risk breaking anything else: copy
> the slock_t definition for hppa from hpux.h into linux.h and add the
> inline'd version of hppa tas() from CVS tip into s_lock.h.  But I'm not
> particularly interested in working on it at two removes from where any
> testing could get done.

I think he also has to modify src/include/port/linux.h to support the HP
processor.

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