Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:02:07 +0000 | From | Matt Dainty <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr) |
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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 > > 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.
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