Hi All,
The Tabor board doesn't have a classic FPU with dedicated FPRs found on most other PowerPC systems. It is replaced with a set of SPE instructions which perform floating-point operations on the integer registers.
Important: The SPE unit can execute floating-point operations very fast. We have tested a lot of programs with FPU operations this year.
Tabor sound, 3D acceleration, and network work without any problems on Debian PowerPCSPE. I'm very surprised about the performance of this board.
Note: It is also possible to install a normal PowerPC distribution of Linux on this board. The missing FPU instructions are emulated for PowerPC programs by the Linux kernel.
Cheers,
Christian
