Reed-Solomon Library Programming Interface

Thomas Gleixner

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Known Bugs And Assumptions
3. Usage
Initializing
Encoding
Decoding
Decoding with syndrome calculation, direct data correction
Decoding with syndrome given by hardware decoder, direct data correction
Decoding with syndrome given by hardware decoder, no direct data correction.
Cleanup
4. Structures
5. Public Functions Provided
6. Credits