[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

[Henry Vermaak]

On 25/03/11 14:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:06:47AM +0000, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>> The latter is particularly interesting since it is effectively a desktop
>>> (sata + lots of USB + VGA). I'm planning to install the just new Fedora 13
>>> and need to set up a crosscompile kernel.
>>
>> I've been thinking about getting one of these:
>>
>> http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/efika
>>
>> I need something small and quiet to drive my projector and with the
>> new debian armhf port, the performance could be quite nice, too.
>> Cortex A8 seems like the thing to go for now, with linaro and debian
>> focusing on armv7 + vfp3 mainly.
>
> 800mhz is a tad slow though.  Very affordable though.

The Cortex A8 (armv7) is 2 generations newer than the Kirkwood processor 
on open-rd (armv5).  It's got almost twice the DMIPS/MHz.  I'd be very 
surprised if it's slower.

> I'm not sure how much FP a browser uses though (due to scaling requirements
> it might actually use FP).

Driving graphics is also probably a big factor.

Henry