[OLPC India] 2nd Generation XO, non x86 portability

[big one]

> Non x86 on future generations of XO.

One of the major barrier of non x86 hardware is lack of applications. What happen if 3rd generation of XO laptops use different kind of CPU/architecture than 2nd generation XO laptops?

One of the multi platform solution is open source LLVM / LLVA:

Mr John Criswell: 
"The code for the LLVA-OS extensions (and the LLVA-OS Linux port) are not publicly available at this time. Some of the LLVA-OS extensions may find their way into LLVM in the future. As for the LLVA-OS Linux port, we may release that at some point, but I can't make any promises about it at the moment. The LLVA work doesn't have its own web page, currently. However, if you're interested, there is a paper on LLVA on the LLVM publication page"

This LLVM / LLVA enable the same Linux applications and Linux kernel to run on multiple platforms / architecture without any modification / re-compiling at optimal speed.

http://llvm.org/

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