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Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:02:47 +0200
From:      Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Tinguely <marktinguely@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Beagleboard stuff
Message-ID:  <9BD97855-B47E-4CF0-8DC5-29F1F4A8EA27@gmail.com>
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Hi Mark,

On Mar 31, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> I have been thinking of the ARMv7 / SMP infrastructure.
>=20
> http://www.tinguelys.info/mark/freebsd/v7Roadmap.txt
>=20
> Disclaimer: recently, I am less sure that all ARMv6 cores can do TEX =
remap.
>=20
> To really take advantage of the new ARM features, we need a newer =
compiler. I have an old hacked up early gcc 4.5 snapshot, but it does =
not compile itself. clang does not cross compile and I have not tried to =
compile it under ARM.
>=20
> Does the OMAP4 implement the MP extensions? They would simply the SMP =
coherency/TLB operations by not having to perform an IPI.

OMAP 4 uses standard Cortex-A9 core. Can you take a look into "ARM DDI =
0407" document? It describer MPCore functionality on Cortex-A9 CPUs so =
it will probably answer your question.

Damjan=20=



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