[rtems commit] doc: SMP introduction

[Sebastian Huber]

Module:    rtems
Branch:    master
Commit:    4fa4ccb6bb8721358b11ce40531b321d94229583
Changeset: http://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=4fa4ccb6bb8721358b11ce40531b321d94229583

Author:    Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>
Date:      Wed Dec 16 06:28:48 2015 +0100

doc: SMP introduction

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 @section Introduction
 
+The Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) support of the RTEMS @value{VERSION} is
+available on
+
+ at itemize @bullet
+ at item ARM,
+ at item PowerPC, and
+ at item SPARC.
+ at end itemize
+
+It must be explicitly enabled via the @code{--enable-smp} configure command
+line option.  To enable SMP in the application configuration see
+ at ref{Configuring a System Enable SMP Support for Applications}.  The default
+scheduler for SMP applications supports up to 32 processors and is a global
+fixed priority scheduler, see also @ref{Configuring a System Configuring
+Clustered Schedulers}.  For example applications see
+ at file{testsuites/smptests}.
+
 This chapter describes the services related to Symmetric Multiprocessing
 provided by RTEMS.