On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:07:19PM +0200, Mohamed Bamakhrama wrote: > Is there any guidelines/tutorial for porting the SMP kernel into a > dual core new architecture based on MIPS32? > AFAIK, in the x86 world we have Intel MPS 1.4 standard. I wonder if > there exists a similar thing for MIPS. In other words, what are the > minimum requirements needed to port the SMP kernel into such an > architecture? The MIPS Architecture definition defines the behaviour of the processor in great detail. It doesn't define the system level or firmware. I suggest you download the architecture manual from www.mips.com and if that leaves any questions open, post again. Ralf