Hi, It might be straight forward to enable but to have drivers support would require some effort.
Cheers, Venu On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Abhinayak Mishra <abhina...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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. >> >> > > > > -- - J. Venumadhav --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
