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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

On Dec 16 2006 15:13, Lee Revell wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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>> They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my.
>
>Yes, definitely.

Explains why Windows is so slow ;-) [FPU restore and stuff...]

On that matter, when does the Linux kernel do proper FPU handling? At context
switches? If so, would not that make a kthread fpu-capable?

>For example lots of Windows sound drivers do AC3 decoding in kernelspace.
>Of course the vendors usually lie and say it's done in hardware...

They don't need to lie, the user buys it anyway...


-`J'
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