Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:02:14 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 |
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On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > >A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells >100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would >now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers >with little experience in writing Linux kernel drivers. What do you tell him? >Write a large kernel module from scratch? Completely rewrite his code >because it uses floating point arithmetics?
They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my.
-`J' --
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