Re: [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: 2.6.16 serious consequences /GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded

[Douglas McNaught]

Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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