Do L4 Fiasco microkernel support multicore processor?
Adam Lackorzynski
adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Sun May 3 23:15:37 CEST 2009
On Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:00:04 +0800, Neohtm wrote:
> > On Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 11:40:31 +0800, Neohtm wrote:
> > > I would like to know whether the Fiasco microkernel is able to run on
> > > multicore processor such as Intel Core 2 Duo or Quad Core???
> > > I want to try to compile the Fiasco + DOpE + L4Linux to run on it.
> >
> > >It will run there (albeit only use one CPU in the current version).
>
> So, Fiasco is able to detect the multicore platform and use the first core
> (CPU0) ?
> In that case, is it possible to launch the L4Linux in another specific core
> of the processor by adding kernel command (-nosmp, -isolcpus ) in
> l4linux26.cfg?
In its current form Fiasco only supports uni-processor machines, i.e. it
will make only one CPU available and won't touch the possibly others.
Consequently applications, such as L4Linux, can only use one CPU.
Adam
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