From 8839cf674e89448280b903bfbe180eab8fc8a71e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 06:28:48 +0100
Subject: doc: SMP introduction

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 @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.
 
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