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| author | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2015-12-16 06:28:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2015-12-16 08:16:15 +0100 |
| commit | 8839cf674e89448280b903bfbe180eab8fc8a71e (patch) | |
| tree | 023959b2e849b9b6d08934a37f59c632bc944ab2 | |
| parent | Fix rtems-bsps for GNU find hosts. (diff) | |
| download | rtems-8839cf674e89448280b903bfbe180eab8fc8a71e.tar.bz2 | |
doc: SMP introduction
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diff --git a/doc/user/smp.t b/doc/user/smp.t index 1b4849ad4f..e42c7f7bb9 100644 --- a/doc/user/smp.t +++ b/doc/user/smp.t @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ @section Introduction +The Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) support of the RTEMS @value{VERSION} is +available on + +@itemize @bullet +@item ARM, +@item PowerPC, and +@item SPARC. +@end itemize + +It must be explicitly enabled via the @code{--enable-smp} configure command +line option. To enable SMP in the application configuration see +@ref{Configuring a System Enable SMP Support for Applications}. The default +scheduler for SMP applications supports up to 32 processors and is a global +fixed priority scheduler, see also @ref{Configuring a System Configuring +Clustered/Partitioned Schedulers}. For example applications see +@file{testsuites/smptests}. + This chapter describes the services related to Symmetric Multiprocessing provided by RTEMS. |