Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the reply!
But a little addition - "we all will cheer uClinux on MicroBlaze
is indeed a wonderful thing....", as I'd hazard a guess that most other
embedded processors do not support FPU's!!
:)
John
Kevin Somervill wrote:
Hello John,
John McGrath wrote:
microblaze. Does anyone know if uClinux will
see any performance improvement with this - My hunch is that there is
little requirement for an OS to use floating point - and most likely
it's avoided at all costs
OS (uClinux or not) have very little use for floating point barring a
few esoteric I/O drivers (if you consider that OS) and specialized HW
extensions for graphics and such. The need for FP is in the
application domain. Corrolary to the OS having no real use for FP,
users have no real use for OS without applications that do useful
things. An OS without applications is little more than a curious piece
of art, like a painting.
The point is that with FP, more applications will become available as
they are more easily realized (not having to fake FP with SW or fixed
point math). With the new better applications, the systems will seem
more powerful and we will all cheer "uClinux is indeed a wonderful
thing. What can it not do?"
/ks
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