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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Tillier, Fabian wrote:
> So which is more important to the "Linux kernel" project: i386 backwards
> compatibility, or consistent API and functionality across processor
> architectures? ;)

For clever programmers they are not incompatible.

> 
> - 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 :)
> 
> greg k-h
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