Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269547AbUICB5N (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:57:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269540AbUICB4C (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:56:02 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:35521 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269545AbUICBgc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:36:32 -0400 Message-Id: <200409030135.i831ZDCE030095@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 07/26/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: David Masover Cc: Linus Torvalds , Hans Reiser , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:11:13 CDT." <4137C4B1.40308@slaphack.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040902002431.GN31934@mail.shareable.org> <413694E6.7010606@slaphack.com> <4136A14E.9010303@slaphack.com> <4136C876.5010806@namesys.com> <4137C4B1.40308@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-13329608P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:35:13 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 32 --==_Exmh_-13329608P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:11:13 CDT, David Masover said: > It'd be like writing OpenGL entirely in software, before hardware > accelerators work, and at the last minute have to change the library to > use triangles instead of splines. I expect that SGI did a software-only version of IrisGL first, so they could figure out what the hardware accelerators needed to support. And even then, the API for IrisGL got modified when it became OpenGL..... --==_Exmh_-13329608P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBN8pQcC3lWbTT17ARArtnAJ9pjublEw96yrSlIphHtU92I+1zhACfRYtj Y15nKf/qP89+UGC+xTbbAf4= =BhBB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-13329608P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/