TI DSP SOC Shipping With MontaVista Support

Texas Instruments is shipping a DSP System On a Chip with Linux support for abstracted DSP interface. The article, and TI and MontaVista apparently, are talking about the video applications. I would think this would go a huge way toward getting Linux on mobile phones. The core of a cell phone is a DSP, and the way to deal with this in the past is normally separation between the generic processor core and the network interface. That really put Linux on an unequal footing with the operating systems which were meant to drive mobile devices however. This seems like it could provide a great way for Linux to penetrate further into the marketplace without extreme constraints.