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Texas Instruments Embedding Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the right-tool-for-the-job dept.

darthcamaro writes "Looks like pretty soon Linux will truly become ubiquitous thanks to Texas Instruments new DaVinci System on a chip DSP. The new consumer electronics chip aimed at capturing the Digital Video market is powered by MontaVista Linux. 'TI understands that there is a larger number of Linux programmers than there are DSP programmers,' Huy Pham, DSP System-on-Chip product marketing manager at TI, told internetnews.com. 'What [DaVinci] does in partnership with MontaVista is enables the Linux developer to use the DSP without needing to understand the complexity of programming the DSP.'"

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  1. But... by pedestrian+crossing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it run, um, er, Windows?

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  2. Perfect partnership or conspiracy? by mrRay720 · · Score: 5, Funny

    DaVinci and MontaVista (Mona Lisa)? More than a coincidence in the naming there?

    I think we need to get Dan Brown to write a book about this obvious conspiracy - "The DaVinci Source Code".

    1. Re:Perfect partnership or conspiracy? by Mr+Z · · Score: 2, Funny

      That explains all the hooded men with torches walking in and out of dimly lit meeting rooms at work. (I work there and actually had a hand in DaVinci's DSP.) Wait a minute, that means I have parts of DaVinci's code on my hard drive. *looks around suspiciously* Maybe I'll call in sick today.

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  3. tremendous response time by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Pham noted that the response time of the latest MontaVista Linux is 'tremendous.'"

    I wonder what they were using prior to MontaVista, just plain old Vista?

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  4. Monta Vista... by jollyroger1210 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "..is an upper class neighborhood..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta_Vista

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  5. Can't wait for the TI calculator. by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's going to be great -- it'll do square roots, cube roots, nth roots, and root.

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  6. This is great! by British · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can run Linux on my TI-99/4A!

  7. Re:TI really need a QA dept by Formica · · Score: 2, Funny

    Code Composer was known "affectionately" as Code DeComposer by our developers when we were using it a while back (several years ago). Hopefully it's improved since then!