Thanks very much for your work on this!

cheers

bruce

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:42:08PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:38:18PM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> > I've been playing with SMP these last few days and I noticed that in
> > locore.s there is a routine named cpu_initialize.  This is called for
> > the primary processor, but, though I could have missed it, it is not
> > called for the secondary processors.  Is there a reason for this?
> 
> Well, startup for the boot CPU differs, it has to deal with the OF stuff
> etc., while the other CPUs have not been started yet. The other CPUs
> should execute the code between cpu_mp_startup and cpu_mp_startup_end.
> 
> We plan to simplify this sheme by having ofwboot do more work and get
> everything set up for the kernel correctly.
> 
> Martin

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