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Transmeta TMS5xxx Reverse Engineered

Posted by timothy on from the they're-still-around-y'know dept.

Richard W.M. Jones writes "This fascinating article, published anonymously, dissects the Transmeta TMS5xxx architecture, revealing how to access and modify the code-morphing code, how the instruction set works, and tells why you won't be able to run Linux directly on this chip."

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  1. Re:TMTA, IBM research, and gcc/binutils by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 5, Informative

    He also states that CMS appears to have been compiled with a hacked up version of gcc and binutils. Isn't failure to release modifications to GPLed code against the license, or am I missing something?

    No, not unless they started distributing the binary of the modified gcc outside transmeta.

    Rich.

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