4 ms·

It doesn’t sound like anyone outside of Intel and Microsoft actually knows how this works. How are Linux and the BSDs going to be able to support this?

• yvdriess 5y ago
  The way it usually goes, Intel submits a kernel patch.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    Only when they are motived enough, PowerVR, Kaby Lake Vulkan?
    • wmf 5y ago
      Those products sold almost no units. Alder Lake will be Intel's mainstream CPU so there should be Linux support.
      • pjmlp 5y ago
        PowerVR had Linux support, just not the way FOSS advocates wanted it.
• dgan 5y ago
  Do they need to support this? Another proprietary blob that takes decisions what process to run where? Just asking
  • mnd999 5y ago
    If Windows is making changes at scheduler level to support it, I would think yes, they do.
• Thev00d00 5y ago
  Android phones have had big.LITTLE a while now, you would hope that scheduler support has matured in that time.
  • bitL 5y ago
    Android phones don't have real multitasking; SailfishOS might be a better example.
    • vbezhenar 5y ago
      Android phones run real Linux kernel with real multitasking. How multitasking exposed in UI is a different question.
      • bitL 5y ago
        That's a bit like saying "your car has 5 gears but you can only use the first one". In practice you have 1 gear.
        • detaro 5y ago
          No, that doesn't make any sense. The system and apps on it make use of multiple cores, that's all that matters for the scheduling point.