From: Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can I link the kernel with libgcc ?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4411C07C.4000005@kenati.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq0ek1a38n2.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net>
Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>>>>"Carlos" == Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>
>Carlos> I figured out how to get the driver to use floating point
>Carlos> operations. I included source code (from an open source math
>Carlos> library) for the log10 function in the driver. Then I added
>Carlos> the following lines to the file arch/sh/kernel/sh_ksyms.c:
>
>Bad bad bad!
>
>You shouldn't be using floating point in the kernel at all! Most
>architectures do not save the full floating point register set on
>entry so if you start messing with the fp registers you may corrupt
>user space applications.
>
>You need to either write a customer user space app or use a table as
>Arjan suggested.
>E_OK
>Cheers,
>Jes
>
>
Hi Jes,
I wasn't aware that floating point registers are not save. I guess I
have no choice but to use a table.
Thanks,
Carlos Munoz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-10 18:03 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
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 [this message]
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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