Changeset 4fa4ccb6 in rtems

Timestamp:

Dec 16, 2015, 5:28:48 AM (5 years ago)

Author:

Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@…>

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5, master

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git-author:

Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@…> (12/16/15 05:28:48)

git-committer:

Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@…> (12/16/15 06:54:14)

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doc: SMP introduction

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• doc/user/smp.t (modified) (1 diff)

doc/user/smp.t

@@ -8 +8 @@
 
 @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 Schedulers}.  For example applications see
+@file{testsuites/smptests}.
 
 This chapter describes the services related to Symmetric Multiprocessing