Re: Comments about SMP

[Samuel Thibault]

Adam Van Ymeren, le dim. 10 mars 2019 13:08:23 -0400, a ecrit:
> On March 10, 2019 11:58:14 AM EDT, Almudena Garcia 
> <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> My point is that it doesn't have to be during boot, it could be after
> >> userland started a least a bit.
> >>
> >
> >A simple question: Is It possible to run a routine in userland from
> >gnumach?
> >Or It's necessary to run a external userland application, as a Hurd
> >server.
> >
> >I don't know if could be possible to call to Hurd ACPI translator from
> >gnumach.
> 
> I don't think that's necessary.  The process doesn't have to initiated from 
> gnumach.  Hurd could have an SMP server that is started at boot, parses acpi 
> tables and calls in to Mach to initialize the additional cores and start 
> scheduling on them.

That's the idea.

Samuel