GSoC2016 : Providing SMP support for RTEMS

[Sebastian Huber]

On 07/03/16 16:05, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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>
> On Mar 7, 2016 12:03 AM, "Sebastian Huber" 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > On 06/03/16 19:17, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >>
> >> Sebastian may have more general SMP ideas but the initial push for 
> SMP gave us great support on a subset of BSPs and architectures and 
> left gaps on others.
> >
> >
> > working on SMP improvements is a bit difficult currently since I 
> will work in this area nearly full time in the next half a year or so. 
> I hope that Darshit Shah will work on the SMP scheduler optimizations 
> for the arbitrary processor affinities in GSoC 2016.
> >
> > Adding SMP support to a specific BSP for an architecture that 
> already supports SMP (ARM, PowerPC, SPARC) is not enough for a GSoC 
> project. Even adding SMP support to new architectures shouldn't be a 
> big deal.
>
> The x86 has enough issues to keep someone busy for a summer.
>
> Also just because you can do something quickly doesn't mean a student 
> can. :)
>

Yes, you are right. x86 can keep you busy for a summer and afterwards 
you need a long holiday.

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