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Cc: powerpc@freebsd.org, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [AIM] SMP now working
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> There's a visible speedup, so things look good. I hope to have
> hard data next week or so.
> 
> Random notes:
> o  It should be safe to enable interrupt delivery to all CPUs
>    and play around with programming the TPR of the CPUs.
> o  SMP works with 4BSD only, but raj@ just told me he has ULE
>    support for SMP.

Hi Marcel,
Please find my original changes that made ULE work on the MPC8572 (dual e500):
http://people.freebsd.org/~raj/patches/powerpc/ule/ Let me know how it goes on
AIM.

(Beware of some regs usage rearanngements along the strict ULE changes..)

Rafal