On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:59:37PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > I am not sure how to read this. The fetchop function is a feature specifically > in the SN2 memory controller. Are you saying we should have a driver that > provides fetchops for all ia64? That seems wrong since it is a hardware feature. > > If, on the other hand, you are saying that the uncached and cached drivers > should be available for all ia64 and the fetchop only if you are on sn2, I > can understand that. That actually seems rather reasonable. Yes, that's what I meant. Even if it's mostly useful for SGI's userland it's implementation shouldn't depend on a SN2 kernel if it doesn't use any SN2-specific functionality. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Sep 10 03:42:48 2004
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