Re: Floating point on IBM PPC405 (266MHz)

From: Juergen Beisert (NOSPAMjbeisert_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/19/03 

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:44:39 GMT

On 18 Sep 2003 06:56:34 -0700, s_popov@prosyst.bg (Alexander Popov)
wrote:

>Is anyone out there using linux on a board with IBM PPC405 (266MHz) CPU?

Yes. PPC405GPr.

>Are there any serious performance problems with the floating point operations?

Yes, because the PPC405 has no floating point support.

Hope that helps
JB 

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