On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 19:28 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > If they put me in charge, I'd choose whichever CPU had the best > performance, lowest power consumption, and lowest price - regardless > of architecture.
Change the ordering: power consumption and price (closely related to integration these days), then performance. FP required... That's what drove us to the Geode. FP is essential for Linux software to "just work": I lived on the StrongARM with the iPAQ, and (almost) all free software signal processing code (e.g. all multimedia code) is written presuming a floating point unit. At the time, there were many chips whose spec sheet claimed you could get FP, but when you went to the vendor, the FP unit didn't exist. It's now 3 years later, so we have a number of highly integrated chips with FP units that are pretty low power to choose from. Note that power consumption drives price through the entire chain; what kind/size of power generation you need, etc. - Jim -- Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel