---On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:30:02 -0500, Pablo Alvarez said
> Hi all,
>
> When I try to do an integer division of an hrtime_t variable within the
> kernel, I get the following error upon inserting the module:
>
> my_module.o: unresolved symbol __divdi3
> make: *** [test] Error 1
>
> As best I can tell, __divdi3 is called by the compiler to do that division,
> and is not available within the kernel (actually, it is available from the
> NVdriver module for my nvidia graphics card, but that leads to other
> problems).
I needed to do a 'short divide' (long long by long) in a module. The
simplest way (for me) was to include /src/linux-2.2.13/arch/i386/math-emu/div_small.S
in my module. It is part of the fpu emulation code.
--re: [rtl] Integer division of hrtime_t variables
Chris
Christopher R. Hawks Software Engineer
Syscon Plantstar a Division of Syscon International
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