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.

-- 
Stephen