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
next prev parent 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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