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On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 00:37 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > If they are doing serious realtime DSP then they should get better > > results in userspace anyway, because they get to use the floating point > > unit which isn't allowed in the kernel. > > It's not as though every algorithm needed float just because it said DSP > (some of those are actually fixed-point or something like that) at a time. I didn't mean to imply that, I was just pointing out it's another feature available in userspace that can't be used in the kernel. Audio stuff like the AC3 encoder/decoders I've seen in Windows drivers use floating point instructions for example. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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