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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