It's not only a test. Obviously, It must start as a test, but I want to add this to Hurd if runs.
El jue., 30 ago. 2018 a las 18:02, Richard Braun (<rbr...@sceen.net>) escribió: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 05:53:42PM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > > I've said It yet. > > > > > As this > > > form, we don't need to know how many cores has the processor and set > the > > > core number in Mach in compilation time. Instead, the same processor > will > > > detect the cores number and configure SMP automatically. > > > > I don't know the exact assembly instructions, but I read about the > > processor can be configured from assembly to run in multicore mode. > > Then, what we had to do is to write a routine that initializes the > > processor with this multicore support, during Mach boot. > > > > In this guide, in Chapter 8.4 feels to be a better explanation about how > to > > do this (initialization example in 8.4.4): > > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-vol-3a-part-1-manual.html > > Oh, so it's merely runtime probing. > > -- > Richard Braun >
