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Date:      Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:56:55 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>,  FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, markb@mellanox.com
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Start SMP subsystem earlier
Message-ID:  <54ABF7B7.6090007@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <54ABF32A.6010409@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <54AA8F19.9030300@selasky.org> <54ABF32A.6010409@FreeBSD.org>

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On 01/06/15 15:37, John Baldwin wrote:
> We need a lot more work before this is ready.  This is one of the goals
> of the multipass new-bus stuff.  In particular, we have to enumerate
> enough devices to bring event timer hardware up so that timer interrupts
> work so that tsleep() will actually sleep.  In addition, we also need
> idle threads created and working before APs are started as otherwise
> they will have no thread to run initially.  This is certainly a desired
> feature, but it is not as simple as moving the sysinit up I'm afraid.

Got it.

Thank you!

--HPS



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