Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 00/24] C6X: New architecture | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:42:37 -0400 |
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:21:58 EDT, Mark Salter said:
> One thing that we plan to push later is an XIP model where cores can share a > single kernel text image but run with their own copies of data. So you end up > with something like a loosely coupled multiprocessor system with some hardware > support for multicore communication and peripheral sharing.
Ah, OK. I eventually came across a mention in one of the patches of running a separate instance of Linux on each core, whick left me even more mystified. But the above clarifies it, thanks...
I wonder how many currently global variables will need to be moved to per_cpu structures to make it work, and how intrusive that will end up. Or is the plan to have the boot loader simply plonk the entire .data/.bss in different locations for each core?
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