Beagleboard stuff

[Mark Tinguely]

On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Damjan Marion wrote:
> 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

Last time that I had looked, TI had not released the technical 
information on the OMAP4 to the general public. I will look again.

The MP core extensions are optional.

Thank-you,

--Mark.