RE: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel

[Tillier, Fabian]

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@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:28 PM
To: Tillier, Fabian
Cc: Randy.Dunlap; sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
hozer@xxxxxxxxx; woody@xxxxxxxxxxxx; bill.magro@xxxxxxxxx;
woody@xxxxxxxxxxxx; infiniband-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/