Texas Instrument C64x uses Linux kernel

Article title: Texas Instrument C64x uses the Linux kernel. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

Texas Instrument (TI) announced the provision of Linux kernel support for its C64x series digital signal processor (DSP) and multi-kernel on-chip system (SoC, in order to fully meet the communication and critical task infrastructure, medical diagnostics, high performance measurement testing and other application requirements. The customer is increasingly using open source code as an important part of the product. Therefore, application developers will fully benefit from TI's high-performance DSP's Linux advantages, which can reduce software development, and focus more on the differences between features and software in their applications.

TI's efforts on C64x Linux have now gained a lot of support from relevant communities. To port the Linux kernel to C64x ISA, Code Sourcery is developing a complete toolchain, including support for the GNU Compiler set (GCC) and the GNU program debugger (GDB. The objective of this project is that both the C64x Linux kernel and GCC/GDB tools can be accepted by kernel.org and the Free Software Foundation, so that they can be fully supported as open-source community projects. In addition, TI will launch a Linux-C64x Portal and community-oriented distribution plan to promote the development of communications and development related to this technology. ENEA is launching a scalable open-source multi-kernel communication protocol stack for the C64x Linux community and providing it with advanced multi-kernel platform software and debugging tools. Nash Technologies is implementing features from advanced chip-level features such as multi-core processor communication to complete LTE protocols. PolyCore Software companies, also early participants in the community, are implementing the MCAPI multi-kernel communication framework.

TI's C64x Linux kernel products support TMS320C6474, and the products are available in May third quarter of 2010.