Starting bare metal application on second core of P2020
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 18 04:18:26 EST 2010
On Feb 17, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Felix Radensky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We'd like to run Linux on core0 of P2020 and some bare metal application running without OS
> on core1. Is it possible to start this application from Linux ? I've seen example of running 2 copies
> of Linux in AMP mode, in which case both are started from u-boot. I'd like to leave core1 in
> reset, start Linux on core0 from u-boot and load bare metal application from Linux. If this
> possible, where can I learn about the procedure ?
There is no of the shelf support for this. It would be reasonable easy to create a driver to load up your application for Linux and kick the second cpu to start it.
- k
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