Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:32:09 -0500 | From | "Tillier, Fabian" <> |
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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 :)
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