> -----Original Message----- > From: lng-odp [mailto:lng-odp-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Mike > Holmes > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 4:52 PM > To: lng-odp@lists.linaro.org > Subject: [lng-odp] [PATCH 0/6] Remove Linux specifics from odp/helpers > > To allow other implementations of the helpers to exist such as those used > on the > Kalray system, we need to remove the hardwired Linux naming. This exists > in the > api, the implementation of the helper lib and the resulting library.
Opaque thread helpers may very well exist with Linux (or Windows or Unix) specific helpers. Majority of the applications are developed against a defined operating system, not against an operating system abstraction layer. For example, a linux specific helper library (consuming and producing Linux types) would be valuable to many applications, may be even more valuable than the opaque thread helpers used by our validation suite. -Petri
