View from the trenches: it doesn't [LWN.net]

View from the trenches: it doesn't

Posted Mar 29, 2004 8:18 UTC (Mon) by alonso (subscriber, #2828)
In reply to: View from the trenches: it doesn't by jonth
Parent article: Linux Kernel 2.6: the Future of Embedded Computing, Part I (Linux Journal)

Don't you think is a metter of time? User needs increase and power of cell phone increase too. Motorola is the fist major player to offer a linux version, others will follow. I think smart phone will be the standard in 3 years time frame.
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View from the trenches: it doesn't

Posted Mar 29, 2004 11:49 UTC (Mon) by jonth (subscriber, #4008) [Link]

Well.... sort of. The typical architecure of a smartphone is multi-core, where you have something like an XScale/StrongARM running the user OS (Windows, Symbian, PalmOS), and another, completely separate processor like an ARM9 running Nucleus as a "Modem processor". (The DSPs to do equalisation & channel decoding typically run without an OS at all.)

Your comment is true for the first processor, but not for the second one.