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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:23:17 -0500
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Subject: Re: PowerPC + SMP
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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