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SubjectRE: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel
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So which is more important to the "Linux kernel" project: i386 backwards
compatibility, or consistent API and functionality across processor
architectures? ;)

- Fab


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:28 PM
To: Tillier, Fabian
Cc: Randy.Dunlap; sean.hefty@intel.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
hozer@hozed.org; woody@co.intel.com; bill.magro@intel.com;
woody@jf.intel.com; infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in
theLinux kernel

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:26:19PM -0500, Tillier, Fabian wrote:
> Do note that for non x86 architectures, the component library atomic
> abstraction is all #define to the Linux provided functions. Only x86
> needed help because of i386 backwards compatibility which is not a
goal
> of the InfiniBand project.

But that is a goal of the "Linux kernel" project :)

greg k-h
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