On Apr 26, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Stuart Yoder wrote: > Thanks Kumar. > > How can I know what assumptions the kernel makes about the state of the > CPU/system when it begins execution? Is this clearly documented > anywhere?
Unfortunately this is something we dont have clearly documented today. As they say the code is the documentation. > Do you know of open source bootloaders for Linux that would demonstrate > how to set up the CPUs as the Linux kernel expects. No, maybe take a look at linuxbios, not sure if it does SMP or not. However, I'm not aware of any open source PPC SMP bootloaders. - kumar
