-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12-08-10 12:24, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > Andrea Canciani <ranm...@gmail.com> writes: > >> If we can't assume that we have a (fast) FPU, > > There is a fairly common misconception that ARM CPUs never have > hardware floating point; that may be part of why some people are > worried. > > However, until we hear from someone who can credibly claim that he is > going to ship pixman to a non-trivial number of people on non-FPU > hardware, I think assuming hardware floating point is fine.
At TI we're still selling millions of ARM9 based SoCs without an FPU on the arm side. A fair percentage will end up running linux with a GUI. The market for cheap ARM chips is huge, not everyone wants to pay $30 or more for the latest A8/A9/eagle. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFMZChwMkyGM64RGpERAp6FAKCSdTUAkIZxfcKbtrRr83D+UEHr6gCfQDHi ZeAPSVfuePt+qI+A/wwvYzs= =xbfw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pixman mailing list Pixman@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pixman
