Re: Linux for Asymmetric Multi Processing Systems.

["Krishna Chaitanya" <lnxctnya@gmail.com>]

Hi Len,

Each Processor has its own RAM and the main ARM9 processor can access
the ARM7 Memory Map through a _Shared RAM_.

In other words, the Memory Map of ARM7 processors is visible to ARM9 processor.

Finally there are 3 RAMs:
1) System RAM (ARM9)
2) Shared RAM (the Common Memory)
3) Local RAM for ARM7s.

Basically, this is a _flexible_ mechanism to control the _visibility_
of Each Processor.

And the Memory Controller can do either _cached_ or _non-cached_ operations.

Regards,
krs

On 5/13/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:24:20PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> > I am working on a project where the hardware is Asymmetric Multi
> > Processing Systems(ASMP).
> >
> > In my system I have one ARM9,  four ARM7s'.
> >
> > 1. Can I use one Linux Kernel for all the CPUs in an ASMP system. (or)
> >    Should I use One Linux Kernel for ARM9 and RTOSes for ARM7.
> > 2. If my hardware would come up in future with another ARM7 does linux
> > scale for the new CPU.
> >
> > Can anyone please direct me to the source/docs how to use Linux for
> > ASMP systems.
>
> So you have two different instruction sets (although I think the arm7 is
> a subset of the arm9, but what do I know), running different clocks
> speeds most likely.
>
> Does each cpu have it's own ram, or do they all share one pool of memory?
>
> How does the Cell processor systems deal with this?
>
> Len Sorensen
>