[Openib-windows] RE: [openib-general] IBDM and IBMgtSim ProposalComments

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:52, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Unless I'm mistaken, there are more than a dozen diag tools running on Linux
> that are coded to umad.  I think that Hal sees porting umad as the easiest way
> to convert those utilities to Windows.

Exactly and I don't think the application porting should be a big deal.
I think it is more interfacing to what is below it.

> It seems to me that the person writing the code will decide whether they should
> interface at the lowest layer or write to a higher level abstraction for
> portability.  I don't see that either way is wrong.  And if the higher level
> abstraction is the native interface on one platform, that sounds like a benefit.

I agree. Whoever does this work will explain and decide their course on
this.

-- Hal