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From: | Almudena Garcia |
Subject: | Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff? |
Date: | Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:52:28 +0200 |
But this solution would be specific to Intel chips? ie: this method of
SMP wouldn't work on AMD or POWER right
Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi:
>
> Also how does one implement SMP via hardware and NOT software? Is this
> a portable approach to do SMP? Will this approach allow SMP on Intel,
> AMD, ARM, POWER, and RISC chips?
>
> I'm reading about Intel processor can be configured to run in multicore mode. I don't know how can I do It yet, but this can be more efficient than a software
> implementation and may solve many concurrency problems.
But this solution would be specific to Intel chips? ie: this method of
SMP wouldn't work on AMD or POWER right?
>
>
>
> El mié., 29 ago. 2018 a las 22:56, Joshua Branson (<jbranso@fastmail.com>) escribió:
>
> Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I'm reading about you're interested in contributing with Hurd and practice with C.
> >
> > I have an interesting project, about implement SMP support in Hurd. Currently, Mach has a little support to multiprocessing, but this is old and very
> buggy.
> >
> > A friend has said me that It's possible to implement SMP support via hardware, instead use software techniques, and I would try this project.
> >
> > If any person can tutorize me and contribute, I will be grateful.
> >
>
> I can probably encourage you for this project, but I'm not sure if I'd
> be able to help very well. I'm still on the struggle bus with the Hurd
> development. I have a ever growing Hurd cheatsheet, but I am no CS
> major.
>
> Also how does one implement SMP via hardware and NOT software? Is this
> a portable approach to do SMP? Will this approach allow SMP on Intel,
> AMD, ARM, POWER, and RISC chips?
>
> Honestly, I could probably just spend some time trying to update the
> Hurd wiki. A lot of places just need some documentation updates. Like
> a lot. hahaha.
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