linux-kernel - Re: ABI change for device drivers using future AVX instruction set

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Message-ID: <20080629132906.611e5244@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:29:06 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Agner Fog <agner@...er.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ABI change for device drivers using future AVX instruction set

> Nothing should prevent me from publishing my own driver for some special 
> purpose (in fact, I am going to do so). The open source principle would 

Go ahead but the API is *source* level and changes each release so the
ABI question doesn't happen.

> It is a disgrace that the ABI 

We don't have an ABI.

Alan
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