On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:53:04PM +0300, Giorgis Georgakoudis wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 19:21, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:20:44AM +0300, Giorgis Georgakoudis wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I would like to ask for some pointers regarding > > porting Linux kernel multiprocessor support in > > new platforms. More specifically, what are the > > HW requirements that a platform must have to > > enable Linux multiprocessing > > It must have more than one processor and both must be able to see the > same system "image" at the same time. > > > In fact, I'm trying to support multiprocessing in an experimental architecture > of Microblazes on an FPGA. There isn't (HW) cache coherency and RAM is > accessed through per processor dedicated buses, thus shared access locking > must be realized either in a software manner or through a dedicated hardware > mutex. Ah, that's going to take some work, good luck with that. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
