From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel modules
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:25:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040823152540.GA8791@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412A077C.1080501@nec-labs.com>
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Lei Yang wrote:
>
> Sort of, I am trying to make a usr mode library work with kernel.
> However, floating point operation is necessary in the algorithm. You
> mean that this can never be done? Is changing floating-point the only
> thing I can do now?
Before helping out more with your compile issue please explain in propser
detail what you try to achive.
Reading the above I get the impression you thing a library will run
faster when running in kernel context - and thats what you try to do.
If this is your plan then the answer is: Drop it.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-23 15:34 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 [this message]
2004-08-23 15:44 ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 16:21 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 14:52 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 15:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-21 21:11 ` Alex Goddard
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