Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Jan 2002 17:44:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr) |
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Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a really nice place to put > generic SMP startup code. Each arch defines it's own per-cpu startup > code. As Matt asked in a private email, it would require hacks to each > arch to support this (Matt: this is my reply:-). While it would be > fairly simple to add a call to a devfs_cpu_register() function to each > arch, this does seem a bit hackish. > > So I'd like to propose a new file (say kernel/smp.c) which has generic > startup code for each CPU. To start with, it can have a > generic_cpu_init() function, which is called by each arch. Note that > this function would be called for the boot CPU too. >
Makes sense.
-hpa
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