The two chips in their lineup are intended for different devices, not different OS's. The slower chip is meant for embedded devices and the faster is targeted toward laptops. Either chip can run any x86 OS.
The Linux tie-in to the slower chip is that TransMeta has an embedded Linux release that is provided with the chip (but is available for other processors as well).
They won't. It is not a matter of open vs closed source but a fundamental design decision. If they release the native architecture then they would be expected to support it. By keeping it closed the designers are free to shift functionality between hardware and software for each new generation depending on the price/power/performance tradeoffs for that particular chip.
In other words, the official suppored ISA for TransMeta processors is IA32. The internal ISA is just that.
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The two chips in their lineup are intended for different devices, not different OS's. The slower chip is meant for embedded devices and the faster is targeted toward laptops. Either chip can run any x86 OS.
The Linux tie-in to the slower chip is that TransMeta has an embedded Linux release that is provided with the chip (but is available for other processors as well).
They won't. It is not a matter of open vs closed source but a fundamental design decision. If they release the native architecture then they would be expected to support it. By keeping it closed the designers are free to shift functionality between hardware and software for each new generation depending on the price/power/performance tradeoffs for that particular chip.
In other words, the official suppored ISA for TransMeta processors is IA32. The internal ISA is just that.