[coyotos-dev] SMP Terminology (was: Re[2]: Coyotos SMP?)

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

Hi,

What is the exact meaning of BSP and AP ?


val


On 22/10/2007, at 15.05, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:01 +0200, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>
>> Yes and no. I have checked and found something that I had completely
>> forgot: the BP-6 mainboard has the option to enable/disable the "ACPI
>> function" in the BIOS setup.
>> In my previous tests it was *disabled*. I just tested the grubdisk on
>BP-6
>> with ACPI *enabled*, and *two* CPUs are detected, and it triggers the
>> cpu_ncpu assert.
>
>Okay. When I get the current bug sorted out the cpu_ncpu thing should go
>away.
>-- 
>Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
>Managing Director
>The EROS Group, LLC
>www.coyotos.org, www.eros-os.org