Re: How do I learn the Hurd stuff?

[Almudena Garcia]

Hi:

Also how does one implement SMP via hardware and NOT software?  Is this
a portable approach to do SMP?  Will this approach allow SMP on Intel,
AMD, ARM, POWER, and RISC chips?

I'm reading about Intel processor can be configured to run in multicore mode. I don't know how can I do It yet, but this can be more efficient than a software implementation and may solve many concurrency problems.

 

El mié., 29 ago. 2018 a las 22:56, Joshua Branson (<jbranso@fastmail.com>) escribió:

Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm reading about you're interested in contributing with Hurd and practice with C.
>
> I have an interesting project, about implement SMP support in Hurd. Currently, Mach has a little support to multiprocessing, but this is old and very buggy.
>
> A friend has said me that It's possible to implement SMP support via hardware, instead use software techniques, and I would try this project.
>
> If any person can tutorize me and contribute, I will be grateful.
>

I can probably encourage you for this project, but I'm not sure if I'd
be able to help very well.  I'm still on the struggle bus with the Hurd
development.  I have a ever growing Hurd cheatsheet, but I am no CS
major.

Also how does one implement SMP via hardware and NOT software?  Is this
a portable approach to do SMP?  Will this approach allow SMP on Intel,
AMD, ARM, POWER, and RISC chips?

Honestly, I could probably just spend some time trying to update the
Hurd wiki.  A lot of places just need some documentation updates.  Like
a lot. hahaha.