Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> writes:
> I have a driver written for 2.4 + RT patches with FP support. I want
> it to work in 2.6. How to implement FP? Has anybody developped some
> "protocol" between KS and US yet? If not, could somebody point me, how
> to do it the best -- with low latency.
> The device doesn't generate irqs
Doesn't sound like something that should be supported for mainline
then.
> So 2 questions are:
> 1) howto FP in kernel
You can use kernel_fpu_begin()/_end() around the FP code in the
kernel, but the real time people will probably hate you for it because
it disables preemption.
> 3) any way to have faster ticks (up to 5000Hz)?
There are plenty of interval timers in various hardware in a typical
system that can be used. e.g. RTC is a common choice. Drawback is
that you might conflict with other users, especially in user space.
But please don't try to submit such a hack.
-Andi
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