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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I link the kernel with libgcc ?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:06:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141956362.13319.105.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603100145.k2A1jMem005323@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:45 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:44:16 PST, Carlos Munoz said:
> > I'm writing an audio driver and the hardware requires floating point 
> > arithmetic.  When I build the kernel I get the following errors at link 
> > time:
> 
> Tough break, that.  You sure you can't figure a way to either push the
> floating point out to userspace

Audio drivers should never have to directly manipulate the samples -
they just manage the DMA buffers and interrupts and wake up the process
at the right time.  Mixing, routing, volume control, DSP go in
userspace.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-10  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10  1:44 How can I link the kernel with libgcc ? Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10  1:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-10  2:06   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-10  3:01     ` Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10  3:22       ` Lee Revell
2006-03-10  3:25       ` Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10  3:25         ` Lee Revell
2006-03-10  3:47           ` Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10 10:37             ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-03-10 11:05               ` Bart Hartgers
2006-03-10 18:03               ` Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10 18:33                 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-10 18:41                   ` Ben Slusky
2006-03-10 19:18                 ` Al Viro
2006-03-10 20:04                   ` Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10 10:18         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-10 18:07           ` Carlos Munoz
2006-03-10  8:01       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10  2:02 ` Lee Revell
     [not found] <5OEVB-3GX-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-10  2:32 ` Robert Hancock

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