Floating Point Operation in Kernel

Ben Warren bwarren at qstreams.com
Thu Dec 14 03:35:45 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:20 -0800, jimmy liu wrote:
> We has a hardware driver need the floating point
> operation to do timing recover. Maybe, we have to do
> it in user space.
> 
Have you considered doing the math in fixed point instead?  I realize
that certain data sets make this difficult but this has been a standard
technique in resource-constrained systems forever.

regards,
Ben




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