From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265540AbUBFUT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:19:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265662AbUBFUT6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:19:58 -0500 Received: from host-64-65-253-246.alb.choiceone.net ([64.65.253.246]:18616 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265540AbUBFUTz (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:19:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4023F775.3090900@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:22:13 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel References: <08628CA53C6CBA4ABAFB9E808A5214CB01DB96CF@mercury.infiniconsys.com> In-Reply-To: <08628CA53C6CBA4ABAFB9E808A5214CB01DB96CF@mercury.infiniconsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979