ARM Cortex-based multi-core support?

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Sep 9 05:34:58 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:22 +0900, Jinsung Yang wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 17:32 +0900, Jinsung Yang wrote:
> > > I'm researching that the latest kernel can support ARM cortex based
> > > multi-core platform..
> > > First, just I need to know current status.. someone knows?
> > 
> > AFAICT, it's all supported and works fine (with a few minor issues like
> > the recent thread on non position-independent dynamic shared objects, if
> > your toolchain generates such things).
> 
> Which platform codes are valuable for reference in the mainline?

Currently it's arch/arm/mach-realview/* and
arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-*smp.c. There are other files in
arch/arm/kernel like SCU support and local timers (smp_scu, smp_twd).

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Catalin




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