| Subject | Re: [patch 00/36] Hexagon: Add support for Qualcomm Hexagon architecture | From | Zan Lynx <> | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:00:44 -0600 |
| |
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 11:34 -0500, Richard Kuo wrote: > The following patch set is intended to add support for the Qualcomm Hexagon > architecture to the Linux kernel. > > The Hexagon architecture is designed to deliver performance with low power > over a variety of applications. It has features such as multithreading, > privilege levels, VLIW, and instructions geared toward efficient signal > processing. The port of Linux for Hexagon runs under a hypervisor layer.
I am curious about the hypervisor layer.
I can guess that it's an attempt to abstract away low level hardware changes, a sort of software version of CPU microcode.
Or maybe it's a Transmeta kind of thing with dynamic recompilation into a quickly evolving VLIW instruction set.
But what's the real reason? -- Knowledge Is Power Power Corrupts Study Hard Be Evil [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |