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ndiamond@despammed.com wrote:
> Mans Rullgard replied to me:

>  >What you should do is think again about why you need all this floating
>  >point in the kernel.
> 
> To control a device.

Note that there is nothing stopping you from doing fixed-point math in 
the kernel.  Depending on the application, this may be sufficient.

Chris