Re: proposition for fixing Y292B bug

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Mon Jul 01 2024 - 05:08:01 EST


On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 05:27:24PM +0200, David Polakovic wrote:
> Thanks for reply.

Please don't top-post on LKML, reply inline with appropriate context
instead.

>
> My proposed solution was to create this BigInt datatype, which
> stores the value in array. The functions for division, multiplication,
> addition, subtraction and comparison could be stored in separate
> ".h" library for manipulation with BigInt datatype. The paper speaks
> more in detail.
>
> And yes, this truly is an userspace solution, but for kernel space
> implementation I have zero to none experience. Therefore I wrote
> here.

There was a proposal for adding 128-bit unsigned integer (see [1]).
The signed counterpart should be analogous.

Thanks.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220722145514.767592-1-alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx/

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