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Re: Audio - In kernel audio mixing



buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow) writes:

>	hello.  Wouldn't using the FPU inside the kernel break the model of
>not having floating point instructions inside the kernel?  Have we moved
>away from that?

Not yet. That's more the call to allow FPU (and whatever) usage in
the kernel to allow a kernel audio mixer to use it.

I don't think that audio mixing should be done in the kernel at all
or that any hardware younger than 15 years needs it.

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