I don't think anything android has been targeted for as of now has multiple symmetric cores, though I am sure there are a few in line. So the simple answer would be no, android does not have SMP support built in, but it should be fairly straightforward to turn it on and of course you would have to write your drivers as well with SMP awareness to really get some benefit out of it :).
- Abhinayak On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:09 AM, tapas kundu <tapaskun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Linux kernel 2.6 supports SMP . I also knew that . But does > the Linux kernel 2.6 which is under android support smp multicore ? . > Will android scale on a 8 core processor ? I am not sure whether > google has enabled SMP multicore support in linux kernel or not . If > it is enabled then android should take advantage of smp multicore > because android is using linux CPU scheduling for process. I am still > confused whether android supports SMP multicore or not . Can anybody > confirm me this ? > > Thanks in advance. > > Tapas > > On Aug 13, 4:09 pm, Gani Bhagavathula <gani.bhagavath...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Tapas: > > > > Android uses linux kernel. The kernel already has SMP support if you > > turn it on. The default kernel config for x86 has it turned on, so I > > would say Android on X86 already supports SMP. Other platforms, I > > dont know... > > > > Gani > > > > On Aug 12, 9:49 am, tapas kundu <tapaskun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi ALL, > > > I am a MTech student of IIT . I want to add SMP multicore > > > support in android. I want to know whether SMP multicore is already > > > supported by android or not ? > > > > > If 'SMP multicore' is already supported then please let me > > > know . If it is not supported then I will add the SMP multicore > > > support in android as part of my major project (duration of project is > > > 1 year). > > > > > Thanks & Regards > > > Tapas. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
