Re: Custom Linux Kernel Scheduler issue

2016-11-23 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 02:01:41AM -0500, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: > Hello, > > > I have a scheduler issue in two different respects: > > 1) I have a process that is supposed to tight loop, and it is being > given very very little time on the system. I don't want that - I want > those who woul

Custom Linux Kernel Scheduler issue

2016-11-23 Thread Kenneth Adam Miller
Hello, I have a scheduler issue in two different respects: 1) I have a process that is supposed to tight loop, and it is being given very very little time on the system. I don't want that - I want those who would use the processor to be given the resources to run as fast as they each can. 2) I

LED backlight driver

2016-11-23 Thread Dushara Jayasinghe
Hi all, Just a generic question re backlight drivers in the 4.4 kernel. I'm working on an embedded system where the hardware configuration is specified in the device tree. On the LCD panel side, there's a simple panel driver which has an optional reference to a backlight driver. I noticed that

Re: IEEE-754 Float to int

2016-11-23 Thread Anupam Kapoor
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Lucas Tanure wrote: > The best way to do it seems to be to write conversion function. > Receive the float in a u32, parse it's bits and return a s32. Can be > done without the use of floats. > ​but this conversion-function might not be straight-forward :) ​it _ma

Re: IEEE-754 Float to int

2016-11-23 Thread Lucas Tanure
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 04:44:43PM +, Lucas Tanure wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 04:05:18PM +, Lucas Tanure wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > At some point my hardware

Re: Kconfig recursion error

2016-11-23 Thread Amit Kumar
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:21 PM Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:54:48AM +, Amit Kumar wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:27 PM Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:36:57AM +, Amit Kumar wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:32 PM Blatinox

Re: Kconfig recursion error

2016-11-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:54:48AM +, Amit Kumar wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:27 PM Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:36:57AM +, Amit Kumar wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:32 PM Blatinox wrote: > > > > > > Hi Amit, > > > > > > On Tue, 22 N