On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:03:15AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 14:51 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Everyone agrees that firmwares are a bit special > > in the world of software due to the fact they don't run on the host > > CPU. > > I don't think they are at all special. What interprets the software - be > it a 'cpu', a 'vm' or a co-processor like many video cards, or something > like an arduino doesn't alter the basic attributes - there is machine > code for one or more machines, which is usually derived from some more > editable source (more can be quite a range though) though compilation. > > If firmware is special, so is java, .net, ocaml, all 32-bit i386 > binaries (because bochs can emulate them elsewhere) etc. > Bullshit. Even if all those stuff are interpreted, they finally runs on the host CPU.
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