Plug computers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:40:30PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Yes; been using one of the original Sheevaplug development kits for
> about 18 months. Fun little machine - I use it as my music server, and
> ssh destination to all the other machines on my network.
> 
> Mine runs Ubuntu 9.04, which is the latest that an ARM5 can run - all
> newer distros are ARM6 only. Quite fast, but its floating point is
> utterly dismal; don't expect to encode MP3s at any speed. Draws about 5W.

Debian armel is still armv4.  So running current software is no problem.

As for floating point, well it doesn't have an FPU, so it is all done
in either softfloat or emulated in the kernel (much worse by at least
10 times over softfloat).  Debian arm was emulated floating point.
Debian armel is softfloat.  There are people working on a debian armhf
which of course will require an FPU, and hence not apply at all to the
sheeva line of CPUs.

> Shipping was a bit slow - they seem to come over in batches, which are
> then individually shipped from the US. I had nothing payable on mine; YMMV.

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Len Sorensen
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