Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:29:06 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Agner Fog <agner@agner.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: ABI change for device drivers using future AVX instruction set
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> 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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