Re: fbvid.h feature request

[Nick K. <nic...@ma...>]

Hello, Romain!

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:08:32 +0100 you wrote:

> > I'm sorry to trouble you.
> 
> No trouble, it's just that Real Life sometimes interfere :-/
> 
> > Currently I've found that I can't continue development of my driver for
> > Linux kernel. Since after applying color correction algorithm it became
> > violate rule: "No float in the kernel" :( So I've dropped it into
> > userspace.
> 
> You couldn't have used fixed-point arithmetic instead of FP ? Should
> have enough precision for imaging, and wouldn't cause problem...
> 
It was one from many solutions. But I'm not expert of fixed-point arithmetic.
Also there were requests for portability and I decide to implement something
what was called VIDIX (Video acceleration is wanted on every system).
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Best regards! Nick