[ILUG-BOM] kernel on a processor

[Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe]

--- "Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor)" <v-amarg at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Search for `Crusoe processor' from Transmeta Corporation in Google.
> This
> the firm where Linus works ! ;)

Errr ... AFAIK, it has nothing to do with kernel being on the
processor. Its just a VLIW processor that spends some of its time
recompiling the incoming instruction stream into its native instruction
set, with a hell of a lot of optimisation.

SameerDS.

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MTech Student
Reconfigurable Computing Lab
KReSIT, IIT-Bombay

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