>On Thursday 15 February 2001 10:15 am, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> > Even with existing processors, only the ARM7500FE has been
>> > shipped with an FPA in significant numbers, and on netbsd we still don't
>> > make a use of it.
>> >
>> > So, to the question.  If I knock up a hack to the compiler and assembler
>> > so that for NetBSD/ARM/ELF they change to a pure little-endian floating
>> > point format, would there be any objections?
>>
>> I guess that depends on whether there is ever likely to be support for the
>> FPA in the ARM7500FE. If the answer is no, then do it. However, I would
>> expect a speed up for X11 with an FPA and I'm quite interested in using
>> things like NCs as X terminals. They are not overendowed with processing
>> power and so any gain would be useful.

>Would more gain be found by actually tweaking the X server code?  I presume 
>these boxes use the vidc and DRAM combination for X.

It may be worth looking at using the kdrive server, it doesn't contain
any float code.

Robert