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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, akpm@zip.com.au,
	kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mec@shout.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic magic
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 07:31:55 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030507.073155.118606464.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB92747.2070204@mvista.com>

   From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
   Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 08:33:27 -0700
   
   Rather I was interested in introducing a scaled math header.  It
   would contain routines to allow access to the 64 bit mpy and div
   instructions, which ,of course, can be done in C but, if you don't 
   want the 64-bit lib, must be done with a rather large bit of code to 
   do simple s32=s64/s32 and s32=s64%s32 calculations.  And, on 64-bit 
   archs the whole problem goes away.

I think you want to do something more like what the byteorder swabbing
interfaces do.  Let the arch override whatever it'd like to optimize,
but provide default 32-bit/64-bit centric "implementations" under
linux/scaled_math/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-07 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-06  6:41 [PATCH] asm-generic magic george anzinger
2003-05-06  7:26 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06 20:15   ` george anzinger
2003-05-07  2:55     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07  9:35       ` george anzinger
2003-05-07 14:30         ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-07 15:08           ` george anzinger
2003-05-07 14:06             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 15:33               ` george anzinger
2003-05-07 14:31                 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-05-07 15:24           ` Kbuild newbie/promotional docs needed John van V.
2003-05-07 20:24             ` Sam Ravnborg

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