[Oberon] Multiprocessor interconnect design and programming

[Thomas Frey]

On 2016-11-20 12:21 , Srinivas Nayak wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Recently I am little curious to know how two processors work together...
> Say on a single board, two x86 processors are sitting...
> How they will work under a single OS...
> How generally such multiple processors get connected on one board
> and how they get initialize and work under one OS, how OS gets the 
> other cpu work...
> Not much from hardware point of view, but from a OS designer point of 
> view on multiprocessor system...
>
For AOS/Bluebottle/A2 the relevant startup code is here: 
https://bbos.org/xref/AMD64.Machine.Mod.html#Machine.InitBoot

> Is there any good book that teaches us about these?
> I see all books discuss on single processor systems...
>
> I asked in IRC channels, but they couldn't help either...
> Any help?
>
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>
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