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Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

Posted Feb 15, 2012 15:21 UTC (Wed) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE by SEJeff
Parent article: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

> I wonder if they got the idea from ARM, or ARM got the idea from the Tegra 3.

The idea _per se_ is not new at all, see the asymmetric multi-CPUs [1] in the '70s or the Cell architecture in 2000 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_multiprocessing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28microprocessor%29

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