On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 05:32:40PM +0200, Almudena Garcia wrote: > Excuse me, It's a little offtopic. > > I was talking about implement SMP via hardware in Hurd (Mach really). In > this implementation, Mach configures the processor during the boot, > enabling multicore support. (All Pentium 4 or modern x86 processor supports > this) > > In the current SMP support, this multicore support feels been build from > software, generating the threads and assigning It to the processor from > software. Then, my idea is to start a project to change this SMP software > to a newer implementation via hardware, as I previously said. 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. > > https://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_45.html > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-vol-3a-part-1-manual.html
What is "a newer implementation via hardware" ? Can you be very specific about what you're referring to ? -- Richard Braun
