On Wednesday 18 May 2016 02:36 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> ARC SMP hardware heavily relies on Interrupt Distribution Unit (IDU)
> for all interrupts serving. And UP ARC hardware lacks this block.
>
> That leads to incompatibility between UP and SMP Linux builds.
>
> Even though UP build of Linux
ARC SMP hardware heavily relies on Interrupt Distribution Unit (IDU)
for all interrupts serving. And UP ARC hardware lacks this block.
That leads to incompatibility between UP and SMP Linux builds.
Even though UP build of Linux will run on SMP hardware at some
point strange behavior will appear.