Re: Floating point in interrupt handler

Hi SorAlx

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 03:35:09 you wrote:
As a first test I've created a simple loop that uses integer
arithmetic and a lookup table to create a sine wave on one of the DAC
outputs. This works like a charm, but I really would like to be able
to use floating point instructions to create more advanced control
loops. So I've added asm inline functions to use the FPU's fsin and
fcos operands. At the start of my loop function I (try to) save the
FPU state with the following code :

why do you need floating point? Your ADCs and DACs are probably no more
than 16 bit anyway.

Because of several reasons. The most important one being that it's a work
related project. I'm the one developing the driver, not the one that's going
to write the control loop. I need this driver to be usable by anyone with
basic mathematical/programming skills.
The second reason would be : "because I know it can be done". The code I
currently have successfully uses floating point instructions in the kernel.
Any modern CPU can execute extreme amounts of floating point instructions per
second.

Please lets not try to discuss the (dis)advantages of integer math vs.
floating point. I know how to write integer math, but it's not what I'm
looking for for this project.


Thanks,
--
Daan
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