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A then Transmeta employee (of mild fame) says that the raw Transmeta architecture isn't really suited as a target for normal end user code, as things like memor
by fredoralive 4y ago
A then Transmeta employee (of mild fame) says that the raw Transmeta architecture isn't really suited as a target for normal end user code, as things like memory protection don't actually exist in the "real" architecture. (https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=105606848227636&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=105606848227636&w=2)
Some people did do a bit of dive into the raw architecture (https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-exposed/ https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-exposed/) but I don't think anyone ever really tried to create a compiler for it, and it would be a moving target anyway as the different Transmeta CPUs seem to use different instruction sets widths (128 bit wide on Crusoe, 256 bit on Efficeon).
- cpeterso 4y agoThe "Transmeta employee (of mild fame)" is Linus Torvalds. I don't mean to spoil the surprise; I just want to encourage people to read his explanation who might have overlooked it otherwise. :)