On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:37:52PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:49:29 -0500 
>  "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
>  >   Or is a scheme like this what you meant by ``very careful about
>  > saves and restores''?  :)
> 
> ...but it still doens't solve the problem of not even having FP in hardware.

  Right.  I was only trying to address ``FP can't be done in the
kernel on _any_ hardware for interrupt-performance reasons, so
Andreas is out of luck with his proposed LKM for a software
modem.''  

  I assume people without hardware FP wouldn't be able to use
his software modem, as emulated FP is probably way too slow to
satisfy the real-time demands.  Just like people without SMP
motherboards won't be able to use SMP -- it's a hardware
requirement.  But that won't (or shouldn't) stop work on either
project!  :)

  Brian
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