From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamie@shareable.org (Jamie Lokier) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:47:09 +0100 Subject: Query about Float Point Operation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100328214709.GA14740@shareable.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org ??? wrote: > WOW > My audio codec drivers use float point operation heavily! > Does that mean that I can ONLY implement it on USER space ? It's not impossible, but it's quite complicated, not supported (no need), and architecture-dependent. Anyway, codecs should be done in userspace. That's how Linux does software codecs. Only audio output, or passing raw data to an audio DSP, needs to happen in kernel space. -- Jamie