13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
5:15 p.m.
Hi Frank,
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 08:22:29AM +0100, Frank A. Stevenson wrote:
On the Android devices, I suspect that Linux is
running in user space
under the L4 microkernel that now powers all Qualcomm devices.
You are wrong. All Android smartphones (with the exception of some legacy
ST-Ericsson devices) contain an independent ARM processor for the Baseband
and Application side. The BP (in the QC case) runs L4 + AMSS (their stack),
the AP runs Linux natively without any hypervisor.
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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