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View from the trenches: it doesn'tView from the trenches: it doesn'tPosted Mar 29, 2004 11:49 UTC (Mon) by jonth (subscriber, #4008)In reply to: View from the trenches: it doesn't by alonso Parent article: Linux Kernel 2.6: the Future of Embedded Computing, Part I (Linux Journal) 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. J
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