Linux kernel and floating point.

Hi, 

 Can i  afford to have floating point calculation inside Alpha kernel. I
found some information saying that floating point is not allowed. Right
now the situation is if i compile the code with -mno-fp-regs i get lot
of unresolved symbols where as removing this option from the CFLAGS
makes every thing work properly. 

Is the only solution is to change the floating point to fixed
arithmetic.The code under discussion is  in openmosix/mosix project 
mos/balance.c file 

 -aneesh