On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:18:30 +0200 Jay Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > BUT... the idea of a 2nd arm with some shared memory interface > > pressed into > > service as a "general purpose accelerator" (could do anything from > > graphics to > > video decode to audio playback, or anything else you can think of) > > would be a > > great idea - but it's something to mull about for the future. > > Was my favourite feature of the GP2X .. nothing quite like having > another ARM core around to do some nice deeds with while the main core > sustains the OS needed for the User to be happy .. > > /me off to find multi-core ARM SOC's for future reference. the already exist. in fact most soc's are multi-core, just multi-SPECIFIC-cores eg, 1 arm core, 1 gfxcore, etc. ... some also throw in a dsp core etc. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
