Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I very much doubt MP3 playing is going to work without an FPU. The > 2300SX specifications are badly mangled by the website but appear to > suggest that it needs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this is not especially low power and > you should be able to find alterna

Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-20 Thread David Schultz
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > There is very low cost microscopic PC (see eBOX 2300 and eBOX 2300SX > www.compactpc.com.tw), which previously run FreeBSD fine, being based on > Vortex86 cpu on Sis SoC chip 550. Unfortunately the manufacturer > switched to a new SoC cpu which is

Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-20 Thread 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

Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
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 t

Re: FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
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. > W

FreeBSD on non-fpu device

2008-01-19 Thread Heikki Suonsivu
There is very low cost microscopic PC (see eBOX 2300 and eBOX 2300SX www.compactpc.com.tw), which previously run FreeBSD fine, being based on Vortex86 cpu on Sis SoC chip 550. Unfortunately the manufacturer switched to a new SoC cpu which is 486SX derivative without FPU. This does not work w