Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:03:51 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation |
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >You don't "support" i386 or ia64 or x86-64 or ppc64 systems? What > >hardware do you support? > > I've never seen or heard of any x86-32 or x86-64 system that supports > hot-swap RAM.
I know of at least 1 x86-32 box from a three-letter-named company with this feature that has been shipping for a few _years_ now. That box is pretty much everywhere now, and I know that other versions of it are also quite popular (despite the high cost...)
> Our hardware does not support PPC, and our software doesn't support > ia-64.
Your hardware is just a pci card, right? Why wouldn't it work on ppc64 and ia64 then?
> > And what about the fact that you are aiming to > >get this code into mainline, right? If not, why are you asking here? > >:) > > Well, our primary concern is getting our stuff to work. Since > get_user_pages() doesn't work, but mlock() does, that's what we use. I > don't know how to fix get_user_pages(), and I don't have the time right now > to figure it out. I know that technically mlock() is not the right way to > do it, and so we're not going to be submitting our code for the mainline > until get_user_pages() works and our code uses it instead of mlock().
Wait, what _is_ "your stuff"? The open-ib code? Or some other, private fork? Any pointers to this stuff?
thanks,
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