Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes: > I didn't mean to imply that, I was just pointing out it's another > feature available in userspace that can't be used in the kernel. Audio > stuff like the AC3 encoder/decoders I've seen in Windows drivers use > floating point instructions for example. It's also a lot easier to use Altivec/SSE/whatever instructions in userspace, if you've got 'em... -Doug - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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