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.

Cheers,
Chris