From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Mohamed Bamakhrama <bamakhrama@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Porting SMP kernel into a dual-core MIPS architecture
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:42:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711154250.GA25553@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40378e40707110807n2cd32c68tdb8604c5d39e72a6@mail.gmail.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-11 15:07 Porting SMP kernel into a dual-core MIPS architecture Mohamed Bamakhrama
2007-07-11 15:42 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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