On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:59:06PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh mentioned:
> Does anyone have experience with linux and these chips? There's up to
> 933MHz available (at ST£62 inc VAT). The attraction is it's low power
> consumption and in particular capability of running with a passive heatsink.
Oh, we've lots of that...
> * Do I assume as Pentium 3 compatible linux will work seamlessly or is this
> naive? Anyone have any links to docs about this?
You can compile a kernel with M3 specific stuff - like 3DNOW support
(speeds up memcpy, stuff like that). Compile all your apps as if it's a
pentium, and you are away.
> * I take it gcc doesn't have optimisations for it though, or does it?
Not really. Consider it a Pentium with 3DNOW or whatever.
> * out of interest, anyone have ideas of it's performance
It seems to be about 20% slower than a celeron of the same clock speed.
The FPU is about 40% slower, at a guess. But, we've boxes with M3's in
them, running at 18 watts, so for low power/no fan stuff, they rock. But
in a desktop...I'm not sure. They cash saving isn't that great.
Kate
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