linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] div64

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:43:14 +0100
From:	ilmari@...ari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] div64_64 support II

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:

> Actually on rereading this: is there really any Linux port
> that emulates multiplies in software? I thought that was only
> done on really small microcontrollers or smart cards; but anything
> 32bit+ that runs Linux should have hardware multiply, shouldn't it?

SPARCv7 (sun4/sun4c) doesn't have hardware mul/div. This includes
SparcStation 1, 1+, 2, SLC, ELC, IPC and IPX.

-- 
ilmari
"A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is,
 at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
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