Subject: Re: [RFC] div64_64 support II

From: [email-masked] (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:43:14 +0100

Andi Kleen <[email-masked]> 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.

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