insmod problem

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Fri May 13 23:46:53 EST 2005


On May 13, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Mark Chambers wrote:

> >
>  >
>  > You're using floating arithmetic in the kernel.
>  >
>  > That's not supported.
>  >
>  > Regards
>  >
>  > Pantelis
>  >
>
> Just for my edification:  Is floating point itself not supported 
> (floating
>  point register
>  corruption or something like that) or just linking to user space 
> libraries?

Use of floating point registers and instructions.  Its possible to use 
FP in rare cases inside the kernel buts its extremely discouraged.

- kumar




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