Subject: Re: kern_sem.c
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/27/2001 10:39:13
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:57:55AM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> So, I've implemented semaphores in the kernel - for the purpose of
> forcing the boot cpu (Hypersparc) to wait for other cpu's to flush
> cache entries before unmapping the page.  This seems to do the trick,
> an MP kernel on a dual hypersparc SS20 can get to start_init() now
> (see my post to tech-smp)

Oooooh... so I should REALLY put the pieces of my two sparc10 (one with working memory, one with a dual-cpu board) together...?

Regards,
	-is

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