From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc: Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro>,
opensuse-factory@opensuse.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:55:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141779307.767.107.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307233724.GB13357@merlin.emma.line.org>
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 00:37 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > If they are doing serious realtime DSP then they should get better
> > results in userspace anyway, because they get to use the floating point
> > unit which isn't allowed in the kernel.
>
> It's not as though every algorithm needed float just because it said DSP
> (some of those are actually fixed-point or something like that) at a time.
I didn't mean to imply that, I was just pointing out it's another
feature available in userspace that can't be used in the kernel. Audio
stuff like the AC3 encoder/decoders I've seen in Windows drivers use
floating point instructions for example.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-08 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200601200904.00389.dazzle.digital@gmail.com>
2006-02-03 16:24 ` 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded s.schmidt
2006-02-03 22:50 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-04 16:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-02-04 19:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2006-02-09 15:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 20:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-16 14:24 ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-02-16 14:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-16 19:49 ` [opensuse-factory] " Robert Schiele
2006-02-16 22:09 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-02-16 22:51 ` Karsten Keil
2006-02-17 23:00 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 14:34 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2006-03-06 12:47 ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-03-06 17:05 ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 21:09 ` [Libusb-devel] " Michael Bender
2006-03-06 22:02 ` Greg KH
2006-03-07 7:42 ` [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: " Silviu Marin-Caea
2006-03-07 22:10 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-07 23:37 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-08 0:55 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-08 1:39 ` Douglas McNaught
2006-02-18 2:42 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-19 4:57 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-19 17:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-20 3:11 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-20 6:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-19 16:25 ` Re[2]: " Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-19 3:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-19 3:20 ` Greg KH
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