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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lei Yang <leiyang@nec-labs.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Kernel Newbies Mailing List <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel modules
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:52:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093272770.29758.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412A01AC.5020108@nec-labs.com>

On Llu, 2004-08-23 at 15:39, Lei Yang wrote:
> Thanks! I did less /var/log/messages, and got the unknown symbols
> Unknown symbol __divsf3
> Unknown symbol __fixsfsi
> Unknown symbol __subsf3
> Unknown symbol __floatsisf
> Unknown symbol __mulsf3
> Unknown symbol __gesf2
> Unknown symbol __addsf3
> 
> However, I don't know what those symbols are :( I am a bit worried that 
> maybe I've done something that is not supported by the kernel, like 
> left-shift 16 bits of an int, or floating operations.

You are correct - the kernel doesn't support floating point operations
used in kernel space unless you do some fairly tricky stuff.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21 19:24 Lei Yang
2004-08-21 21:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-21 19:45   ` Lei Yang
2004-08-21 20:05     ` viro
2004-08-21 20:13     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-21 21:50     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-21 19:55       ` Lei Yang
2004-08-21 20:46       ` Lei Yang
2004-08-21 20:57         ` Lee Revell
2004-08-23 14:10           ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 14:29             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-23 14:39               ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 14:52                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-23 15:04                   ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 15:20                     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-23 15:25                     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-23 15:44                       ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 16:21                         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 14:52                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-23 15:48               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-21 21:11         ` Alex Goddard

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