19 Feb
2010
19 Feb
'10
7:24 a.m.
On 02/18/2010 07:59 PM, Ken Restivo wrote:
Thanks, there was an earlier post about the N900. He
also mentioned that the apps would have to be not just recompiled with CPU-specific flags,
but rewritten to use ASM calls to get the FPU to work. That's much more work than I
have interest in at this time.
I think you need CodeSourcery GCC:
http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm
More about compiling for the ARM Cortex A8 (N900's cpu):
http://pandorawiki.org/Floating_Point_Optimization
Also, the guy who ported Quake3 to Android enabled the FPU using a recent GCC:
http://osdir.com/ml/android-ndk/2010-01/msg00174.html
However, the prices on these things are still in the
insane territory (i.e. US$400), so I ain't going there for at least a few years until
these become "obsolete" and can be had for US$100 or so on Craigslist. I
consider myself lucky if I can make US$50 a night, so expensive hardware is way out of
reach for me.
Then, for something that fits into you pocket, maybe that you could hack
something around a Beagleboard.. Should be lots of fun :)
--
Olivier