Subject: Re: What's left to do to make UltraSPARC SMP work?
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/04/2004 06:32:14
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:42:17PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>
> (1) CPU cross-calls
> (2) TLB invalidation
> (3) lazy FPU context switching
> (4) getting the non-boot CPUs to enter the scheduler and run stuff
> ... and probably more once we have initial versions of all the above.
>
> dennis and I have versions of (1) and (2)
>
>
> commitable? for code #ifdef MULTIPROCESSOR, don't feel shy about
> adding it not 100% cooked :)
I'll see about committing what we've got so far this weekend.
it's really more like 10% cooked. but as long as it doesn't break
UP kernels then any progress is good.
-Chuck