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From: Nishanth Menon <menon.nishanth@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:02:11 +0300
Subject: [U-Boot] Uboot and ARM SMP support
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Peter Pearse said the following on 06/25/2009 06:55 PM:
> Those interested in SMP booting on ARM may be interested in
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> http://www.linux-arm.org/LinuxBootLoader/SMPBoot
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> 	On ARM supplied development boards we rely on the pre-installed 
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> ARM Boot Monitor to provide the necessary setup to allow U-Boot to run uni-core.
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> 	I am about to look at a patch for the ARM Fast Model A9 multicore
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> in order to boot it without an ARM Boot Monitor. I'll cc this list
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> once it is added to git://linux-arm.org/u-boot-armdev
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>
> Apologies for the disclaimer - our sys admins seemd to have decided to close my open-source account.......
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>   
It might be exciting to look at boot and peripheral support planned:
a) unicore Vs multicore support at u-boot level?
b) single thread scheduling?
c)  interrrupt handling?
d) peripheral and flash handling could be concurrent?
e) anything else which could affect common systems?
f) any kernel/"other OS" specific features?

Regards,
Nishanth Menon