IBM 750GX SMP on Marvell Discovery II or III?

Amit Shah amitshah at gmx.net
Thu May 13 00:30:58 EST 2004


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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