Re: How can I link the kernel with libgcc ?

Lee Revell
2006-03-10T02:06:07Z

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