Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] rslib: Add tests for the encoder and decoder

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Ferdinand,

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 4:13 PM Ferdinand Blomqvist
<ferdinand.blomqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A Reed-Solomon code with minimum distance d can correct any error and
> erasure pattern that satisfies 2 * #error + #erasures < d. If the
> error correction capacity is exceeded, then correct decoding cannot be
> guaranteed. The decoder must, however, return a valid codeword or report
> failure.

> Note that the tests take a couple of minutes to complete.

On which hardware? ;-)

JFTR, the test succeeded on m68k, after 6 hours and 12 minutes of runtime
on an emulated Atari Falcon (ARAnyM hosted by an i7-4770).
So far I have no plans to run it on bare metal.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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