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Re: FAQ added


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:05:24 +0100

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Sebastien Petit wrote:
> So, sent patches must be IA32 and IA64 compatible only ?
> Can we do a dependant machine code (for performance or other reasons) or not
> ?

I would like to keep the code not to IA?? centric. We don't have to
worry about the DMA and cache idiosyncraties of various hardware
platforms like NetBSD does, but we shouldn't sacrify portability without
a very good reason.

Joerg

> 
> Regards,
> Sebastien.
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