[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] OGG support

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Paul Mundt wrote:
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>>All software FP implementations are of course very CPU intensive. You
>>have to calculate the FP result in software which takes several hundred
>>cycles while in hardware it would only take just a few cycles. So FP on
>>emebdded devices will probably always be dead slow - at least for the
>>next future.
>>
> 
> This is not necessarily true either, and is one of the bigger reasons for
> pushing EABI. It makes sense to use VFP for what it supports natively,
> most of the rest of it is better left to something like soft-float.
> Kernel FP emulation is slow by definition.

What's nokia's position on EABI[1]? I've heard debian has been
discussing this an other distros for ARM devices (Familiar and
OpenZaurus) are planning a switch too. I know glibc lacked EABI support
and RMK raised some more concerns, but I haven't been paying attention
to it for the past few months.
So I'm very interested in nokia's point of view on this EABI thing :)

regards,

Koen


[1] http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/faq.html
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