List of bsps supporting multiprocessing

[Antoine Lacroix]

Thanks a lot Joel for this quick answer.
I will try the ppc configuration.

About SMP, yes, I have in mind some recent posts of Jennifer here. I am 
impatient to find it in 4.11.


Antoine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Sherrill" <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>
To: "Antoine Lacroix" <lacroix.antoine at free.fr>
Cc: <rtems-users at rtems.org>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: List of bsps supporting multiprocessing


> On 03/21/2011 03:19 PM, Antoine Lacroix wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> I tried to build several rtems configurations (pc686/score603e)
>> with --enable-multiprocessing but I get a message saying that
>> "multiprocessing is not supported for this bsp".
>>
>> Is there somewhere a list of bsps that support this multiprocessing 
>> option?
>>
> Not really.  Easy enough to grep for.
>
> $ grep -l HAS_MP */*/Makefile.am
> m68k/mvme136/Makefile.am
> m68k/mvme147s/Makefile.am
> powerpc/psim/Makefile.am
> sparc/leon3/Makefile.am
>
> Some of the BSPs that supported this have been
> removed over the years.
>
> Be aware that this is NOT SMP.  It is more like
> what would now be called distributed multiprocessing.
> Each node runs a full copy of RTEMS and a subset
> of Classic API calls can transparently work on
> objects which reside on another node.  Most of the
> standard BSPs which support it use shared memory
> for communication.  But MPI has been used in
> the past.
>
> SMP is a work in process.  Hopefully 4.11 will
> include it on at least the i386/pc386 and sparc/leon3
> BSPs.
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Antoine
>>
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