Arm linux Asymmetric multicore programming
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Jan 6 07:33:35 EST 2010
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 07:19 +0000, pulluru wrote:
> I have an multi-core arm processor. I have a requirement to make core1
> run Linux and to utilize core2(currently in WFI state) for specific
> application, say example: running a network packet engine on core2,
> for increasing performance.
>
> I am a beginner to arm and kernel programming. I would like to wake-up
> the core2 from WFI state and run my own program.
>
> Could you please give me some pointers to the linux arch/kernel code
> where the CPU core initialization happens?
You may get some hints on this page:
http://www.linux-arm.org/LinuxBootLoader/SMPBoot
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Catalin
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