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

[Bill Davidsen]

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@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
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