libfreevec benchmarks

2008-08-21 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
approximation method (Taylor approximation is pretty dumb if you ask me anyway). Regards Konstantinos Margaritis Codex http://www.codex.gr ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Re: libfreevec benchmarks

2008-08-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
ding and then *if* it's proven worthy, then we can worry about stuff like copyright assignment, etc. > The new libc-help mailing list was also created as a place for people to > learn the process and get the patches in a state where they're ready to > be submitted to libc-alpha

Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(Sorry for the cross-posting, please ignore if you are not interested in this, CC me as I'm not subscribed) Hi, First some introductions. I'm Konstantinos Margaritis, a long time Amiga/BeOS/Linux user/developer and a PowerPC fan, former Debian Developer, also a SIMD/AltiVec fanat

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
What makes the system stand out, from say a Atom based PC? As you said, PCI Express, *actual* low power and probably higher speed -all cpus mention are faster than the Atom at least in relative terms. The SoC design means less components on the board, so smaller sizes might be achieved.

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: Ok, just a short comment. In principle I like diversity, competition, etc. And it was somewhat sad when Apple abandoned ppc. But honestly - why should I be buying a ppc desktop system? If we restrict our comparison to Linux, because

Re: GPIO - marking individual pins (not) available in device tree

2008-10-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
ticular kernel/driver knowledge and neither did have to do anything extremely low-level to acquire the data. Both used windows user-level programming, though that was ~8years ago so don't expect me to remember the exact VME boards or APIs used... K