Nick Piggin <npiggin <at> suse.de> writes: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:04:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Nick Piggin <npiggin <at> suse.de> wrote: > > > > > Implement queued spinlocks for i386. [...] > > > > isnt this patented by MS? (which might not worry you SuSE/Novell guys, > > but it might be a worry for the rest of the world > > I never thought a FIFO queue would be patentable. > > Do you have a reference to the patent number? >
The ReactOS guys none the less, seem to have implemented queued spin locks - http://www.reactos.org/en/newsletter_10.html (see the HAL section.) Now I haven't looked at the code to see if they are different from what MS has patented but given that it's a clone of Windows, one would think at least from the behavioral pov they are similar? Parag - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
