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		Maxious on Feb 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My dual core can beat up your quad core, and other... There's the beginnings of support for the little core/big core paradigm in Linux: "Operating System Support for the Heterogeneous OMAP4430:A tale of two micros" http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/LeSueur_Rod... Think they said if it's not in kernel mainline soon, they'll write a usenix paper instead

justincormack on Feb 19, 2012 [–]

There is a good LWN summary of what will probably happen short and longer term here http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/481055/f5344869dc672690/

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