Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:17:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44474 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201404071717.s37HHBaS052850@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Mon Apr 7 17:17:11 2014 New Revision: 44474 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44474 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report for multi-core ARM support Submitted by: ian Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Mon Apr 7 17:15:51 2014 (r44473) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Mon Apr 7 17:17:11 2014 (r44474) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 25 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 26 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -1548,4 +1548,65 @@ device vt_efifb</pre> <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>SMP on Multi-Core ARM Systems</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Ian</given> + <common>Lepore</common> + </name> + <email>ian@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Olivier</given> + <common>Houchard</common> + </name> + <email>cognet@ci0.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Wojciech</given> + <common>Macek</common> + </name> + <email>wma@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>&os; now supports Symmetrical MultiProcessing (SMP) on a + variety of ARM multi-core systems. The effort to bring SMP to + ARM has been underway for quite some time, but a major push by + the &os; ARM developer community over the past two months has + resulted in robust production-ready SMP support.</p> + + <p>An ever-growing number of ARM-based development boards and + small low-power computer systems are available with multi-core + processors. &os; is now able to make good use of all that + computing power, making such systems more attractive to both end + users and vendors looking to create products based on similar + designs.</p> + + <p>SMP is now enabled by default in the configuration files for + all currently-supported systems that have multi-core processors. + This includes systems based on the following processor + families:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Allwinner A20</li> + <li>Freescale i.MX6</li> + <li>Marvell Armada XP</li> + <li>Samsung Exynos 5</li> + <li>Texas Instruments OMAP4</li> + </ul> + </body> + + <sponsor>Microsemi, Inc.</sponsor> + <sponsor>Semihalf sp.j</sponsor> + </project> </report>
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