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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:02 +0100
From:      Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device
Message-ID:  <200801201442.03152.thierry@herbelot.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080120103801.GP1466@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <479296CA.8000700@wlansystems.com> <20080120103801.GP1466@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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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



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