FreeBSD on non-fpu device

[Diomidis Spinellis]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> 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

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

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