From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 00:28:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 00:28:34 -0400 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:38411 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 00:28:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 22:25:22 -0600 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oliver Xymoron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Message-ID: <20020525222522.A7339@hq.fsmlabs.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FSM Labs Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:20:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I certainly personally agree with you, but the hard-liners don't. > Remember: it took the hard-RT community a long time to accept radical new > things like CPU caches, and some of them _still_ like the ability to lock > down cachelines.. I recently heard a gentleman from Boeing Civil Aviation speak on how they are considering what to do now that their stock of static memory, no-OO, cacheless 68Ks are dwindling and their "tested to death tiny subset of ADA" has no compiler vendors. It's an interesting problem at least to some of us. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Victor Yodaiken Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com