Re: [ECOS] SMP on Intel x86

["Steve West" <swest at cyglan dot com>]

> Of course it can probably be fixed, but that is several weeks work.
>
> There is also a question of suitability. eCos is intended for small,
> cheap, low power embedded devices. Anything with a Core 2 duo in it
> will have plenty of RAM, peripherals, graphics, and high power
> consumption. Most likely a PC motherboard. It would make more sense to
> run an embedded Linux on that than put the effort in to getting eCos
> running.
We have been using eCos since 2002. There was little for embedded OS's that 
where as powerful as eCos back then. We would like to continue to use it, 
but may be forced to an embedded Linux as the hardware changes are forcing 
us to a dual CPU.
   We would like to test the SMP on eCos. For now we can just get the info 
from the ACPI table by hand and try the code. I have been doing some 
investigation and find that setting the interrupt and starting the CPU may 
be different now. Could you shed some light on this?

Steve 


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