From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How can I link the kernel with libgcc ?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:32:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4410E54B.6020400@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5OEVB-3GX-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
Carlos Munoz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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:
Floating point + kernel = no no. If the hardware requires floating point
manipulations this should go in userspace.
> These symbols are coming from gcc. What I would like to do is link the
> kernel with libgcc to solve this errors. I'm looking at the kernel
> makefiles and it doesn't seem obvious to me how to do it. Does anyone
> know how I can link the kernel with libgcc, or point me in the right
> direction ?
This is almost certainly a bad idea. The functions inside libgcc are not
designed to run inside a kernel.
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Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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next parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <5OEVB-3GX-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-10 2:32 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
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
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
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