[PATCH 5/9 v3] Add the MPC8641 HPCN platform files.
Jon Loeliger
jdl at jdl.com
Tue Jun 20 09:32:08 EST 2006
So, like, the other day Segher Boessenkool mumbled:
>
> I'm confused now. So are or arent't all CPUs running at the
> time Linux is started?
Only the boot CPU is running. The others are not.
> Are you saying Linux manually starts
> all non-boot CPUs?!?
Right. The secondary CPUs are not clocking, not able to
fetch memory, not nothing until Linux gets a shot at
smp_secondary_kick()'ing them into motion. And then we
have the ability to start the scondary CPUs one at a time.
jdl
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