From: Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: IBM 750GX SMP on Marvell Discovery II or III?
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 20:00:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405122000.58267.amitshah@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405121619110.19967@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 19:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > Bottom line, 750 can't be used for SMP.
>
> Solution: divide memory in pieces, run multiple instances of Linux, each on
> its own CPU and memory piece, and use a piece of uncached RAM for
> implementing communication channels between CPUs ;-)
Wow, I was thinking about the exact same thing when I read this mail. I still
haven't grokked the PPC architecture to comment on all the mails on this
thread, but I guess this would be the easiest and surest way to make "SMP"
work.
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Amit Shah
http://amitshah.nav.to/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 7:28 IBM 750GX SMP on Marvell Discovery II or III? Amit Shah
2004-05-10 23:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-05-11 2:09 ` Dan Malek
2004-05-11 3:03 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-05-11 15:46 ` Dan Malek
2004-05-11 17:23 ` Huailin Chen
2004-05-11 17:31 ` Amit Shah
2004-05-11 20:51 ` Huailin Chen
2004-05-12 0:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-05-12 0:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-05-12 7:57 ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-05-12 8:00 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-05-12 10:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-12 11:53 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-05-12 11:46 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-05-12 13:45 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-05-12 14:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-12 14:30 ` Amit Shah [this message]
2004-05-13 4:30 ` Bryan Rittmeyer
2004-05-14 8:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-14 9:11 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-05-11 3:08 ` Huailin Chen
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