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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FP in kernelspace
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:08:13 +0159	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CCCB74.9010605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154271283.2941.27.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> So 2 questions are:
>>> 1) howto FP in kernel
>>>
>> kernel_fpu_begin();
>> c = d * 3.14;
>> kernel_fpu_end();

Yup, I know about this possibility, but this is only x86 specific?!

> unfortunately this only works for MMX not for real fpu (due to exception
> handling uglies)

concludes it's not multiplatform at all... For that reasen I (maybe) want some 
"protocol" for communication with US, where I can easily compute it.

Another way could be rtai (there is FP implemented IIRC), but it means having 
out-of-kernel driver.

thanks,
-- 
<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/">Jiri Slaby</a>
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-30 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-30 11:28 FP in kernelspace Jiri Slaby
2006-07-30 11:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-07-30 14:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-30 14:40 ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-30 14:54   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-30 15:09     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2006-07-30 15:20       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-30 15:23       ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-30 15:21     ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-30 17:34       ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-30 18:11         ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-30 18:15           ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-30 18:30             ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-30 18:17           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-30 17:33     ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-30 18:18   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-30 18:28     ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-30 23:11       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-30 17:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-31  0:33 ` Steven Rostedt

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