manual: document dependencies on atomic operations
authorAnton Kolesov <anton.kolesov@synopsys.com>
Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:29:46 +0000 (21:29 +0200)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:58:15 +0000 (10:58 +0200)
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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt

index 93e6a3ef193302a25338cf833528b7be39c846e3..fd9460caa1add1131a0739ace539aef180fd4ab4 100644 (file)
@@ -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+)