No, the PowerPC 405s can’t be used as a SMP platform. The 405 caches are not designed with cache coherency for SMP.
Thanks, John ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ?? Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Could XUP be uesd as a SMP platform Hi all, I am working with a Xilinx Virtex II Pro evaluation board, which has two PowerPC 405 and I have ported linux 2.6.24 onto that board when there is one PPC405 configured. I'd like to use this board as a SMP platform. Is it feasible? If it works, what steps should i follow? Could you give me some recommendations or any literatures I could refer to? Thanks a lot! This email and any attachments are intended for the sole use of the named recipient(s) and contain(s) confidential information that may be proprietary, privileged or copyrighted under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, copy, or forward this email message or any attachments. Delete this email message and any attachments immediately.
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