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OKL4 Virtualization Technology Demo on Linux Mobile Phone
Open Kernel Labs (OK) says that it has is demo'd its Linux and OKL4 virtualization technology integrated with MontaVista Linux on FIC's OpenMoko Neo 1973 smart phone. OK customers use OKL4's virtualization, high performance IPC, and support for user-level device drivers for embedded computing devices.
The OpenMoko Neo1973 smart phone is based totally on open source software and in combination with OKL4, the phone features multiple graphical applications running on different virtual machines, all on a single processor core. In addition, this is the first device to illustrate the ability to simultaneously run multiple FancyPants applications on multiple operating systems running on the OKL4 microkernel on a single processor core.
These customers are targeting 250,000,000 wireless subscriber devices, such as mobile phones and high-speed data communication cards, for OKL4-based systems.
The OpenMoko phone is one example of the ability to quickly develop differentiated applications with multiple instances of MontaVista Linux on a single-core processor using OKL4's secure system virtualization capability.
"MontaVista Linux powers the OpenMoko phone and many additional mobile devices, where we see an increasing demand for a secure virtualization solution," said Dan Cauchy, marketing director for mobile and carrier grade, MontaVista Software.
Posted to the site on 17th October 2007