[PATCH] Rename CONFIGURE_SMP_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Fri Feb 3 16:04:07 UTC 2017


On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> On 01/02/17 14:16, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>
>> Rename CONFIGURE_SMP_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS to CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS
>> since the SMP part is superfluous.
>
>
> I still think its worth to rename this configuration option. I would like to
> move it (CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS) to
>
I'm OK with it, since the MP variants are distinct. I do wonder about
the use of MP with SMP (i.e. asymmetric/clustered multiprocessing),
but that is a problem for another year.

In my view, processors == cores, and CPU is only relevant to
uniprocessor systems.

> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/c-user/configuring_a_system.html#basic-system-information
>
> and delete
>
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/c-user/configuring_a_system.html#smp-specific-configuration-parameters
>
> which is then empty.
>
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