Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:28:24 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 |
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On Dec 16 2006 15:13, Lee Revell wrote: >On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> 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...
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