On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:04:36 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote:
> > H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> NOTE: This patch uses a bc(1) script to compute the appropriate
> >> constants.
> >
> > Perhaps dc would be more appropriate? That's included in busybox.
> >
>
> Perhaps it would, but I think there is more variability between dc
> implementations -- consider if the busybox version is broken, for
> eample.
>
> Either way, how many people compile their kernels in a busybox
> environment?
>
> Anyway, I don't think compiling bc is hard on anything which has a C
> compiler.
alternative is to just also ship the precomputed values ;-)
>
> -hpa
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