From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "Tillier, Fabian" <ftillier@infiniconsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the Linux kernel
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 02:54:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040207025404.GJ12503@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08628CA53C6CBA4ABAFB9E808A5214CB01DB96A4@mercury.infiniconsys.com>
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.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 18:31 [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the Linux kernel Tillier, Fabian
2004-02-05 18:40 ` Greg KH
2004-02-05 18:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-07 2:54 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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2004-02-05 20:16 [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-05 21:54 ` Greg KH
2004-02-06 23:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-05 19:44 [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the Linux kernel Tillier, Fabian
2004-02-05 20:16 ` Greg KH
2004-02-05 19:38 [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel King, Steven R
2004-02-05 21:51 ` Greg KH
2004-02-05 19:31 Raj, Ashok
[not found] <33561BB7A415E04FBDC339D5E149C6E26C38FA@orsmsx405.jf.intel.com>
2004-02-05 18:55 ` Greg KH
2004-02-05 18:34 Raj, Ashok
[not found] <C1B7430B33A4B14F80D29B5126C5E94703262582@orsmsx401.jf.intel.com>
2004-02-05 18:09 ` Greg KH
2004-02-04 4:53 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-04 2:01 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-04 4:08 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2004-02-04 0:17 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-04 1:03 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 16:45 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-04 11:26 ` Masanori ITOH
2004-02-02 23:58 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-03 0:56 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 1:38 ` Masanori ITOH
2004-02-03 22:37 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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