On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Brian C. Grayson wrote:
> 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.''  

Uhm, not really.

If he does the computations using fixpoint arithmetics, he won't need
any hardware floating point at all, and no kernel modifications.

	-is