[Cbe-oss-dev] spu question

jschopp jschopp at austin.ibm.com
Wed Oct 11 03:41:00 EST 2006


> The simpler alternative would be that we simply allow the users to
> specify impossible situations, e.g. pinning more than the physically
> available SPUs or creating a gang that is larger than that number.

The Linux kernel design philosophy has always been to allow users to shoot themselves in 
the foot.  As a result the kernel is pretty clean and straightforward, testing is much 
easier, etc.  So from a community perspective this is the way to go.




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