Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:35:30 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr) |
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Matt Dainty writes: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:14:51PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:13:02 +0000 > > Matt Dainty <matt@bodgit-n-scarper.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:40:58PM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > > > > So I'd like to propose a new file (say kernel/smp.c) which has generic > > > > startup code for each CPU. To start with, it can have a > > > > generic_cpu_init() function, which is called by each arch. Note that > > > > this function would be called for the boot CPU too. > > > > > > Would this also be hacked into whatever Hotswap CPU support exists? Such
Hm, that would be nice.
> > We use /proc/sys/cpu/#/. I don't understand what /dev/cpu/xxx is supposed to > > do. > > /dev/cpu/[0...]/... contains (on i386 at least), the cpuid and msr > character devices, except on devfs-enabled boxen, these don't appear > automatically.
Indeed.
Regards,
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