FreeBSD on non-fpu device

[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. 
> While it is not exactly a speed daemon, it works well enough for all kinds 
>of mp3-playing, small servers and control applications.

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 5V at 3A - this is not especially low power and
you should be able to find alternatives.  Check out www.pcengines.ch
and www.ewayco.com [I haven't used either of these manufacturers but
have found them in searches].

>Alternatively, porting MATH_EMULATE back from NetBSD etc might be an 
>option, but might be a larger task, and apparently NetBSD math emulation 
>did not work out of box either (seems to be a cpu detection bug, based on 
>mailing list discussions).

FreeBSD used to support both MATH_EMULATE and GPL_MATH_EMULATE.  Support
was removed in July 2003 but the bits are still in the CVS repository.
I don't know how much effort would be involved in resurrecting it.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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