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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:22:29 +0200
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
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On 2002.07.12 Alan Cox wrote:
>> Are these functions which are supplied by the FPU?  I've looked
>> through the fpu emulation headers and exp() is the only one I can find
>
>You can't use FPU operations in the x86 kernel.
>

Are you to worried about precission ? Can't you just do your sin() etc.
in fixed point ? (and move all your fpdata to fixed point, of course)

Or perhaps you could use some kind of DCT ?

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