PARALLEL PROCESSING METHOD FOR DUAL OPERATING SYSTEM

• US 20100319008A1
• Filed: 03/11/2010
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc., Insyde Software Corp
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc., Insyde Software Corp
• Inventors: Ho, Wen Chih
• Granted Patent: US 8,407,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45537 Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE I/O emulation G06F13/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

The present invention relates to a parallel processing method for a dual operating system, comprising building a main operating system and a sub operating system on an operating system kernel; executing a first application program in the main operating system and executing a second application program in the sub operating system; the operating system kernel transmitting an instruction or command received from a piece of hardware to the first application program; the first application program converting the instruction or command into program codes to be executed by the second application program; the first application program transmitting the program codes to the second application program; the second application program executing the program codes and saving the executed result in a memory or a file system; the first application program reading the executed result of the second application program from the memory or the file system; and the first application program transmitting the read result to the operating system kernel.

Claims

1. A parallel processing method for a dual operating system, adapted to control a piece of hardware of a computer by an operating system kernel, the method comprising the steps of:

building a main operating system and a sub operating system on the operating system kernel;

executing a first application program in the main operating system and executing a second application program in the sub operating system;

the operating system kernel transmitting an instruction or command received from the piece of hardware to the first application program through the main operating system;

the first application program converting the instruction or command into program codes to be executed by the second application program;

the first application program transmitting the program codes to the second application program through the sub operating system;

the second application program executing the program codes and saving the executed result in a memory or a file system through the operating system kernel;

the first application program reading the executed result of the second application program from the memory or the file system, in which the executed result of the second application program is accessed from the memory or the file system by the operating system kernel through the main operating system so as to be read by the first application program; and

the first application program transmitting the read result to the operating system kernel through the main operating system.

2. The parallel processing method according to claim 1, wherein

the operating system kernel transmits the instruction or command received from the piece of hardware to an input service means of the first application program through the main operating system;

the input service means of the first application program converts the received instruction or command into program codes to be executed by the second application program;

an output service means of the first application program calls the second application program through the sub operating system and transmits the program codes to the second application program through the sub operating system;

the output service means of the first application program reads the executed result of the second application program from the memory or the file system; and

the input service means of the first application program transmits the read result to the operating system kernel through the main operating system, and the operating system kernel drives the piece of hardware in accordance with the received result.

3. The parallel processing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the piece of hardware is a system architecture and peripheral device of the computer.

4. The parallel processing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the operating system kernel is a GNU Linux kernel.

5. The parallel processing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the result of the second application program executing the program codes is in a form of a memory mapping or a file.

6. A computer readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon, adapted to implement the parallel processing method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 5 when the program is loaded into a computer from the recording medium and executed.

7. A computer program product having a program recorded therein, adapted to implement the parallel processing method as defined in any one of claims 1 to 5 when the program is loaded into a computer from the computer program product and executed.