Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:54:39 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Use of floating point in the kernel |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > We really should, but there really are some rare cases where it is > actually ok. > > In particular, you _can_ do math, if you just do the proper > "kernel_fpu_begin()"/"kernel_fpu_end()" around it, and you have reason to > believe that you can assume a math processor exists. > > Is it needed? I dunno. I'd frown on it in general, but I don't see it > being fundamentally wrong under the rigth circumstances. >
Sure; however, perhaps those can be marked separately in the Makefile.
-hpa
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