Re: How to use floating point in a module?

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 23:04:03 EST


ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Mans Rullgard replied to me:

>What you should do is think again about why you need all this floating
>point in the kernel.

To control a device.

Note that there is nothing stopping you from doing fixed-point math in the kernel. Depending on the application, this may be sufficient.

Chris
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