Andrew Morton wrote:
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know what happened. 2.6.1-rc2-mm1 added the `-msoft-float' compiler
option. So what used to be inline 387 instructions became fp library
calls.
So it's not an _urgent_ problem, and I can probably just drop the
-msoft-float patch fro
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I know what happened. 2.6.1-rc2-mm1 added the `-msoft-float' compiler
> > option. So what used to be inline 387 instructions became fp library
> > calls.
> >
> > So it's not an _urgent_ problem, and I can probably just drop the
> > -msoft-float patch fr
Andrew Morton wrote:
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
Well sisfb_do_set_var() is using floating point. I guess it has been
changed in the recent update so the compiler now has to actually emit FP
library function
Leandro Piccilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> CC drivers/video/sis/sis_main.o
> drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c: In function `sisfb_do_set_var':
> drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c:622: warning: unused variable `reg'
>CC drivers/video/sis/sis_accel.o
> .
> finishing with this errors:
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Well sisfb_do_set_var() is using floating point. I guess it has been
> > changed in the recent update so the compiler now has to actually emit FP
> > library function calls.
> >
> > It would be be
On Iau, 2004-01-08 at 19:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It really looks like all the math should be quite doable with just regular
> integer code. You'd need to use 64-bit integer division (some of the
> values involved are large), but it doesn't look fundamentally hard.
>
> Somebody that knows the
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Well sisfb_do_set_var() is using floating point. I guess it has been
> changed in the recent update so the compiler now has to actually emit FP
> library function calls.
>
> It would be best if that code could be reworked to use integer math.
It rea
