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From: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:42:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412061042.59549@fortytwo.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

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On Sunday 05 December 2004 01.53, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Some of our kernel headers implement generally useful abstractions
> across all of the architectures we support.  I would like to make an
> "architecture portability" library, based on the kernel headers but as
> a separate project from the kernel, and intended for use in userspace.

Doesn't apr cover some of this already? Should such an effort be merged into 
apr?

Just a thought.
-- vbi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05  0:53 Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library Paul Mackerras
2004-12-05  1:08 ` Robert Love
2004-12-05  1:47   ` Paul Mackerras
2004-12-05  2:10     ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-12-05  3:51     ` Roland McGrath
2004-12-05  2:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-05  2:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-12-05  4:06   ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-12-05 18:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-05 19:48 ` Joseph Seigh
2004-12-05 23:29 ` Joel Becker
2004-12-06  9:42 ` Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [this message]
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2004-12-05  6:18 Dan Kegel

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