Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751500AbWCHBkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:40:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752004AbWCHBkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:40:00 -0500 Received: from sp-260-1.net4.netcentrix.net ([4.21.254.118]:3790 "EHLO suzuka.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751500AbWCHBkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:40:00 -0500 To: Lee Revell Cc: Matthias Andree , Silviu Marin-Caea , opensuse-factory@opensuse.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded References: <200603070942.31774.silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> <1141769422.767.99.camel@mindpipe> <20060307233724.GB13357@merlin.emma.line.org> <1141779307.767.107.camel@mindpipe> From: Douglas McNaught Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:39:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1141779307.767.107.camel@mindpipe> (Lee Revell's message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:55:06 -0500") Message-ID: <871wxdk93k.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 16 Lee Revell 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/