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Re: Dividing by a non-static value in carl9170-fw?

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On Friday 18 March 2011 20:16:15 Ignacy Gawedzki wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:48:33PM +0100, thus spake Ignacy Gawedzki:
> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:45:53PM +0100, thus spake Christian Lamparter:
> > > No need for a hack, just get a udivsi3_i4i.S (a good place is the linux kernel
> > > library sources in arch/sh/lib, you could also import one from the original
> > > ar9170fw.git) and place it into carlfw/src. Next, you need to modify the
> > > carlfw/CMakeLists.txt: add src/udivsi3_i4i.S to carl9170_lib_src and put
> > > "set_source_files_properties(src/udivsi3_i4i.S PROPERTIES LANGUAGE C)"
> > > a few lines further down.
> > > 
> > > compile...
> > > 
> > > [Note: you probably have to change the name of the __udivsi3_i4i symbol 
> > > to ___udivsi3_i4i too]
> > 
> > Great, thanks for the hint, I'll try that as soon as I can.
> 
> So I finally got the time to test that solution.  Compilation worked like a
> charm indeed, thanks.  All seemed fine until I ran that code.  Indeed the
> result of the division is completely off. :(
> 
> For instance, if I have A = 17719, B = 44, then A / B gives C = 12886, instead
> of the expected 402.  It is as though the result was multiplied by 32.

I gave it a try and It worked?!

[54670.551750] ieee80211 phy14: FW: a:0x4537 b:0x2c a/b:0x192 (0x192 = 402).

(It was nothing else than just define "a" and "b" (as global variables) and
add the INFO("a:0x%x b:0x%x a/b:0x%x", a, b, a/b);)

Regards,
	Chr
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