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Make it two: Tuxes on one SoC

Vybrid SoC

Vybrid SoC running two Linux instances

In earlier posts I already wrote about Vybrid, a Freescale ARM SoC consisting of one Cortex-A5 and one Cortex-M4 (microcontroller) CPU. Normally, one would run a Firmware on the Cortex-M4 and Linux on the Cortex-A5 (which is quite well supported by contemporary kernels). But since we have two CPU’s with architectures supported by Linux (ARMv7-A and ARMv7-M), so why not running two independent Linux kernels in one SoC?

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