Subject: Re: Multi-Processor support
To: Markus Illenseer <markus@server.peacock.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 10/23/1996 00:01:47
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 08:11:05 +0200 (MET DST)
Markus Illenseer <markus@server.peacock.de> wrote:
> Currently I do not know how to deal with two processors, I believe that
> you need to enable SMP (that is symetric multiprocessing) anyway, so
> by default only one CPU is working?
To quote "PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform: A
System Architecture", section 12.2.1 - SMP-Safe Boot:
3. One of the first things that the firmware does is
establish one of the processors as the `master'.
The `master' is a single processor which continues
with the rest of the booting process; all of the
others are places in a `stopped state'. A processor
in this `stopped state' is out of the picture; it does
nothing that affects the state of the system and will
continue to be in that state until awakened by
some outside force such as an inter-processor interrupt
(IPI).
Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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