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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

  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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