Is it possible to boot more than 4 cores in x86 FS?

On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Jason Clemons wrote:

> Gabe,
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  I did a hg pull and hg update this afternoon and have 
> made some progress on booting.  I found that with a custom built version of 
> 2.6.28.4 with smp on, the patch and the linux image files (linux-bigswap2.img 
> and linux-x86.img) from gem5.org I am able to boot multicore x86 using the 
> default cpu type which I think is atomic.
> 
> After working with Andrea, we noted that the boot problem for x86 happens 
> with the PARSEC root image but not the linux-x86.img from gem5.org.  This was 
> tested using the custom kernel and the default cpu type.
> 
> I am currently attempting to test the detailed cpu-type with 2 cpus.  I will 
> let you know of any errors I run into.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Clemons
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Gabe Black <[email protected]>:
> 
>> I looked into this more, and the code that sets up the memory hierarchy
>> was broken a little while ago. I have a patch that seems to fix it
>> (attached) but then it gets stuck a little later. I remember a while ago
>> someone had problems with atomic operations not being supported by the
>> memory system fully, but I don't remember the specifics. This might be
>> that problem too.
>> 
>> Gabe
>> 
>> On 02/24/12 02:45, Gabriel Michael Black wrote:
>>> Yes, I have. You're using O3 though, and that support is fairly new.
>>> 
>>> Gabe
>>> 
>>> Quoting "Ankita (Garg) Goel" <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone been able to boot multiple cpus wth FS mode on x86 ? If
>>>> yes, it
>>>> would greatly help if you could share your environmental setup. The
>>>> issues
>>>> I am facing I have already posted in some previous emails.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ankita
>>>> 
>>> 

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