Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:18:32AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > Sender: [email protected]
> > From: Allen Akin <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:53:44 -0800
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [forum] Some perspective from the cheap seats...
> > -----
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:55:30PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > | I'll bet you a dinner it is at least two generations before we have both
> > | FPU's and any significant 3d rendering assist in these devices.
> > |
> > | Understand, this is a bet I'd be very happy to lose :-).
> >
> > I'll take a bet, if you'll accept a modification. :-)
> 
> What modification?  Sounds like you don't like my FPU constraint.
> I made it with eyes wide open, and for a good reason: bitter experience.
> 
> >
> > Going by what I heard at the last ARB meeting, we're likely to have 3D
> > assist before we have FPUs in the host processor.
> 
> Wouldn't surprise me in the least.  Intel, at least, didn't "get it" (see
> below) when I last talked to them about FP; maybe one of the other embedded
> chip vendors will.  Even single precision FP (which was planned originally
> for what became XScale when it was still a Digital chip), would be a great help.

Doesn't the PPC 405 core used in IBM's PDA reference design have an FP
unit ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther