Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:56:55 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, markb@mellanox.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Start SMP subsystem earlier Message-ID: <54ABF7B7.6090007@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <54ABF32A.6010409@FreeBSD.org> References: <54AA8F19.9030300@selasky.org> <54ABF32A.6010409@FreeBSD.org>
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On 01/06/15 15:37, John Baldwin wrote: > We need a lot more work before this is ready. This is one of the goals > of the multipass new-bus stuff. In particular, we have to enumerate > enough devices to bring event timer hardware up so that timer interrupts > work so that tsleep() will actually sleep. In addition, we also need > idle threads created and working before APs are started as otherwise > they will have no thread to run initially. This is certainly a desired > feature, but it is not as simple as moving the sysinit up I'm afraid. Got it. Thank you! --HPS
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