From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 14:12:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AB916A419 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from postfix1-g20.free.fr (postfix1-g20.free.fr [212.27.60.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CFB13C455 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by postfix1-g20.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2700421980CA for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B7A3EA107 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635583EA119 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m0KDg9cZ005512 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:10 +0100 (CET) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <479296CA.8000700@wlansystems.com> <20080120103801.GP1466@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080120103801.GP1466@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801201442.03152.thierry@herbelot.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:14:29 +0000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:12:12 -0000 Le Sunday 20 January 2008, Peter Jeremy a écrit : > 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 device, > > which is by far the lowest power consumption I have seen, and this is > > probably cheapest computer on the market, still suitable for 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 slow CPU TfH