multiprocessor

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Nov 18 08:53:20 EST 2007


On 11/16/07, keng_629 <keng_629 at 126.com> wrote:
>
>
> i am trying to make a exam about Multiprocessor on the Xilinx Virtex-4 with
> two PowerPc hard core.
> please give me some advices about  bootloader and os.
> how can i start my work.

I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what you're asking about.
Both u-boot and Linux run on the ppc405 cores that the Virtex-4 uses.
However, there is no cache coherency between the cores so you would
need to run a separate Linux image on each one.  (SMP doesn't work)

Cheers,
g.

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