From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:43:14 +0100
> Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Actually on rereading this: is there really any Linux port > > that emulates multiplies in software? I thought that was only > > done on really small microcontrollers or smart cards; but anything > > 32bit+ that runs Linux should have hardware multiply, shouldn't it? > > SPARCv7 (sun4/sun4c) doesn't have hardware mul/div. This includes > SparcStation 1, 1+, 2, SLC, ELC, IPC and IPX. Right and the cypress sun4m parts don't do multiply/divide in hardware either. I believe the Alpha does divide in software too, see arch/alpha/lib/divide.S - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/