Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 7 Feb 2004 02:54:04 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the Linux kernel |
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Tillier, Fabian wrote: > Further, comments in the x86 code base indicated that only 24-bits > are actually valid (probably from some i386 limitation that is no > longer relevant).
It is because of the Sparc architecture. I think Sparc doesn't (or perhaps didn't) have atomic operations, so a cunning hack is used to simulate them.
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