Beagleboard stuff

[Damjan Marion]

Hi Mark,

On Mar 31, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> I have been thinking of the ARMv7 / SMP infrastructure.
> 
> http://www.tinguelys.info/mark/freebsd/v7Roadmap.txt
> 
> Disclaimer: recently, I am less sure that all ARMv6 cores can do TEX remap.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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