Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Sep 2009 17:30 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
We all know (and love?) ARM as the company which focusses on licensing designs for power-efficient yet still powerful processors, mostly used in embedded devices. The Cambridge company has been looking to expand into the netbook market, and has now announced a new step in this process with a number of new multicore Cortex-A9 designs.
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RE[2]: Linux on ARM + Wine
by WereCatf on Fri 18th Sep 2009 21:18
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Member since:2006-02-15
So making Wine work on ARM, maybe by adding some emulation capability,
It wouldn't be possible to run x86 Windows apps on ARM without converting ALL x86 instructions to ARM instructions. So it would require a lot more than just some emulation. Running anything more complicated than Calc.exe that way on a low-power ARM would be a suicide.
RE[3]: Linux on ARM + Wine
by mmebane on Fri 18th Sep 2009 21:29
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Member since:2005-07-06
Not necessarily. You might be able to get by with running the Wine DLLs / Wine server as native code and then having some sort of thunks into the emulator which runs the app code. I believe the ARM can run in little-endian mode, so you might not even need to change endianness.
RE[3]: Linux on ARM + Wine
by KenJackson on Fri 18th Sep 2009 21:36
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The reason Wine is so important on x86 is because there is a huge glut of apps that people think they can't live without that they are used to using on x86 Windows. So Wine allows them to keep one foot in the old world.
But ARM is a whole new world. Anyone making the break to ARM probably has their mind a little more open toward making a clean break from the past.
So making Wine work on ARM, maybe by adding some emulation capability, would be counterproductive.