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13 years ago

Can I upload Nios2 SMP system?

Hi, guys & Altera corp. I'm now making a Nios2 SMP system for my research purpose. It's still a little bit buggy and slow, but I succeeded to boot Linux kernel and execute bash. Linux ...
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13 years ago

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I succeeded to make a Nios2 SMP system by using normal Nios2/f cores.

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Sounds great.

But how did you handle cache synchronization and the inter-CPU atomic operations that are necessary to do the Mutex API and the multiple Kernel-internal synchronization issues ?

(I understand that this is close to impossible without modifying the CPU design.)

-Michael