How is an MSD different from an LSP?
To support an array of architectures with MontaVista’s traditional horizontal edition products like Professional 5.0, MontaVista utilized generic drivers as to not create conflicts with other drivers and code. This approach, although good for some customers porting across multi-architectures, sacrificed the driver optimizations that semi partners have been creating in recent years. With MontaVista’s MSD approach, those driver optimizations are now included and customers get to take advantage of the optimizations, be it in silicon or software.
