From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965484AbXCFSR4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:17:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965493AbXCFSR4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:17:56 -0500 Received: from ping.uio.no ([129.240.78.2]:36345 "EHLO ping.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965484AbXCFSRz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:17:55 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2058 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:17:54 EST From: ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari =?utf-8?Q?Manns=C3=A5ker?=) To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Miller , shemminger@linux-foundation.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] div64_64 support II Organization: Program-, Informasjons- og Nettverksteknologisk Gruppe, UiO References: <20070226143127.5c74bec9@freekitty> <20070305155714.3abe1b5e@freekitty> <20070305.162551.41660347.davem@davemloft.net> <20070306140412.GA1470@one.firstfloor.org> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:43:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070306140412.GA1470@one.firstfloor.org> (Andi Kleen's message of "Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:04:12 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Exiscan-Spam-Score: -7.8 (-------) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen writes: > Actually on rereading this: is there really any Linux port > that emulates multiplies in software? I thought that was only > done on really small microcontrollers or smart cards; but anything > 32bit+ that runs Linux should have hardware multiply, shouldn't it? SPARCv7 (sun4/sun4c) doesn't have hardware mul/div. This includes SparcStation 1, 1+, 2, SLC, ELC, IPC and IPX. -- ilmari "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen