Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:15:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black) Cc: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@csn.net Subject: Re: Headsup: SMP_AUTOSTART Message-ID: <199705072215.PAA23011@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970507171012.1434I-100000@zen.cypher.net> from "Ben Black" at May 7, 97 05:11:15 pm
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> stop me if i'm wrong, but there is no such thing as an "application > processor" in typical SMP and as far as i knew freebsd smp was pretty > typical for early smp unix. Read the Intel specification. There are AP's and there is the BP. The BP runs the bootstrap code before the AP's are started. The bootstrap code is non-SMP-capable ROM BIOS code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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