Re: MIPS, How to use floating point in a module?

[Yoichi Yuasa]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:39:17 -0500 (CDT)
ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Now I am told that our next target will be a MIPS-based CPU.
> Looking at files under arch and asm includes for MIPS, I don't see
> any equivalent of the x86 (x87, 686, etc.) functions and macros
> kernel_fpu_begin, init_fpu, kernel_fpu_end, etc.  Is it safe to
> just barge ahead and use floating-point arithmetic operators when
> the driver needs to use them?

We cannot use the FPU instruction in a MIPS kernel.

Yoichi
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