On 3/15/07, Bryce Chidester <br...@rh...> wrote:
> I had a chance to play around with the Geode GX (and both other models,
> one of which is still sitting on my window sill), and while I commend
> AMD on putting together one heck of a demo box, the CPU itself just
> couldn't handle very much transcoding or echo cancellation. Simply
> terminating Zap calls into Echo() with zapata.conf's echocancel=yes
> would grind the system to a halt starting at exactly call number 8. It
> may be a good little desktop system, but it's strengths are definitely
> not in realtime processing. Admittedly, when AMD marketed the Geode to
> embedded applications, they emphasized the flexibility of a PC
> architecture, not the power - it's meant to be a low power, fan-less
> processor.
> Just my $.02.
>
> Regards,
> Bryce Chidester
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Agreed.
The new GX isn't a whole lot better than the GX1 that is the SC1100
used in the net48xx/WRAP boads.
AMD also makes the LX and NX. The new Soekris (net5501) uses the
LX, which is faster than the GX but does not have the sweeeet FPU that
the NX has. Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)
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Kristian Kielhofner
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