Could XUP be uesd as a SMP platform

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 22:35:47 EST 2008


On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:49:14PM +0800, =?GB2312?B?ItXF6fMiIDx6aGFuZ3lpaGVyZUBnbWFpbC5jb20+?= wrote:
>Hi  all,
>
>I am working with a Xilinx Virtex II Pro evaluation board, which has two
>PowerPC 405 and I have ported linux 2.6.24 onto that board when there is one
>PPC405 configured.
>
>I'd like to use this board as a SMP platform. Is it feasible?

No.  The 405 cores are not designed with SMP in mind and it
will not work.

If the board has discrete memory for each CPU, you might be
able to run it in an AMP fashion.

josh



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