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Matias wrote:
> Ok, thanks for your answers!
> I have been working with PowerPC processors in the past and looking at 
> Freescale's 8641D it is possible to boot two different kernels on it's 
> both cores.

It's not a hardware issue, it's mostly a firmware issue, of course.

	-hpa