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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:11:00 +0200
From:      Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
To:        thierry@herbelot.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device
Message-ID:  <01AAB81A-27DB-47E6-A575-D759D0F67F56@aueb.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200801201442.03152.thierry@herbelot.com>
References:  <479296CA.8000700@wlansystems.com> <20080120103801.GP1466@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200801201442.03152.thierry@herbelot.com>

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On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> Le Sunday 20 January 2008, Peter Jeremy a =E9crit :
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:33:14AM +0200, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
>>> Why anyone would be interested?  The eBOX 2300SX cpu is a SoC =20
>>> device,
>>> which is by far the lowest power consumption I have seen, and =20
>>> this is
>>> probably cheapest computer on the market, still suitable for =20
>>> number of
>>> applications. While it is not exactly a speed daemon, it works well
>>> enough for all kinds of mp3-playing, small servers and control
>>> applications.
>>
>> I very much doubt MP3 playing is going to work without an FPU.
>
> mad is a good (integer-only) candidate for MP3 rendering with a =20
> slow CPU

True.  I'm using it on the non-FPU DNARD Shark (StrongArm SA-110 CPU =20
running at 233 MHz) and it works fine.

Diomidis Spinellis - http://www.spinellis.gr=



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