| Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:42:13 -0500 | From | Richard Kuo <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/36] Hexagon: Add support for Qualcomm Hexagon architecture |
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:00:44PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > 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?
There are definitely opportunities for bonus features with hypervisors, but the real reason is just to allow multiple guests to run concurrently on a machine.
Thanks, Richard Kuo
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