From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Gaisler Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:27:53 +0000 Subject: Re: sparc32 SMP for 2.6 Message-Id: <420F47C9.1060303@gaisler.com> List-Id: References: <420F070B.8010000@mc.net> In-Reply-To: <420F070B.8010000@mc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org We are currently investigating how to add linux SMP support for the leon sparc processor, so your patches are appreciated! I will report back in case we find/solve other issues. We have both a behavioural simulator and a FPGA system with on-chip debug support, so tracing and debugging SMP software should be a bit easier than on Sun hardware ... Jiri Gaisler. Bob Breuer wrote: > I've been poking at the sparc32 SMP code and I have it to the point > where it will run a minimal userland. It is still far from being > stable though. > > For reference, I started with the SMP patch [0] that wli sent to > the list last July. To go along with the attached SMP patch, it > needs the spinlock fix [1] from Art Haas, and the attached > DEBUGSPINLOCK patch from Tom Callaway.