From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: "Stuart Yoder" <stuart.yoder@conformative.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PowerPC + SMP
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:23:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0959397aecc420eff4922c4b2b826976@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <056601c54a94$6d0cae50$2f010a0a@foundation.com>
On Apr 26, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote:
> Thanks Kumar.
>
> How can I know what assumptions the kernel makes about the state of the
> CPU/system when it begins execution? Is this clearly documented
> anywhere?
Unfortunately this is something we dont have clearly documented today.
As they say the code is the documentation.
> Do you know of open source bootloaders for Linux that would demonstrate
> how to set up the CPUs as the Linux kernel expects.
No, maybe take a look at linuxbios, not sure if it does SMP or not.
However, I'm not aware of any open source PPC SMP bootloaders.
- kumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-25 21:10 PowerPC + SMP Stuart Yoder
2005-04-25 21:39 ` Kumar Gala
2005-04-26 19:16 ` Stuart Yoder
2005-04-26 19:23 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
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2005-04-25 21:11 Stuart Yoder
2005-04-26 3:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 14:54 ` Stuart Yoder
2005-04-26 17:35 ` Wolfgang Denk
2005-04-26 19:07 ` Stuart Yoder
2005-04-26 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 23:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-27 4:37 Frank
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